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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER XII
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Withal she has plans of her own in regard to Fritz, and the others; being a lady of many plans.

That of the "Double-Marriage," for example; of marrying her Prince and Princess to a Princess and Prince of the English-Hanoverian House; it was a pleasant eligible plan, consented to by Papa and the other parties; but when it came to be perfected by treaty, amid the rubs of external and internal politics, what new amazing discrepancies rose upon her poor children and her! Fearfully aggravating the quarrel of Father and Son, almost to the fatal point.

Of that "Double-Marriage," whirled up in a universe of intriguing diplomacies, in the "skirts of the Kaiser's huge Spectre-Hunt," as we have called it, there will be sad things to say by and by.
Plans her Majesty has; and silently a will of her own.

She loves all her children, especially Fritz, and would so love that they loved her .-- For the rest, all along, Fritz and Wilhelmina are sure allies.

We perceive they have fallen into a kind of cipher-speech; [_Memoires de Bareith,_ i.


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