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Prepared by D.R. Thompson

Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia"

BOOK IX.
LAST STAGE OF FRIEDRICH'S APPRENTICESHIP: LIFE IN
RUPPIN.
1732-1736.

Chapter I.
PRINCESS ELIZABETH CHRISTINA OF BRUNSWICK-BEVERN.
We described the Crown-Prince as intent to comply, especially in all
visible external particulars, with Papa's will and pleasure;-- to
distingnish himself by real excellence in Commandantship of the
Regiment Goltz, first of all. But before ever getting into that, there has
another point risen, on which obedience, equally essential, may be still
more difficult.
Ever since the grand Catastrophe went off WITHOUT taking
Friedrich's head along with it, and there began to be hopes of a pacific
settlement, question has been, Whom shall the Crown-Prince marry?
And the debates about it in the Royal breast and in Tobacco-Parliament,
and rumors about it in the world at large, have been manifold and
continual. In the Schulenburg Letters we saw the Crown-Prince himself
much interested, and eagerly inquisitive on that head. As was natural:
but it is not in the Crown-Prince's mind, it is in the Tobacco-Parliament,
and the Royal breast as influenced there, that the thing must be decided.
Who in the world will it be, then? Crown-Prince himself hears now of
this party, now of that. England is quite over, and the Princess Amelia
sunk below the horizon. Friedrich himself appears a little piqued that
Hotham carried his nose so high; that the English would not, in those
life-and-death circumstances, abate the least from their "Both marriages

or none,"--thinks they should have saved Wilhelmina, and taken his
word of honor for the rest. England is now out of his head;--all
romance is too sorrowfully swept out: and instead of the "sacred
air-cities of hope" in this high section of his history, the young man is
looking into the "mean clay hamlets of reality," with an eye well
recognizing them for real. With an eye and heart already tempered to
the due hardness for them. Not a fortunate result, though it was an
inevitable one. We saw him flirting with the beautiful wedded Wreech;
talking to Lieutenant-General Schulenburg about marriage, in a way
which shook the pipe-clay of that virtuous man. He knows he would
not get his choice, if he had one; strives not to care. Nor does he, in fact,
much care; the romance being all out of it. He looks mainly to outward
advantages; to personal appearance, temper, good manners; to
"religious principle," sometimes rather in the reverse way (fearing an
OVERPLUS rather);--but always to likelihood of moneys by the match,
as a very direct item. Ready command of money, he feels, will be
extremely desirable in a Wife; desirable and almost indispensable, in
present straitened circumstances. These are the notions of this
ill-situated Coelebs.
The parties proposed first and last, and rumored of in Newspapers and