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

CHAPTER II
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In fact, it seems possible this Medical Graduate may have been set to act shoeing-horn; but he had better not.

Leopold storms into the House, "Draw, scandalous canaille, and defend yourself!"-- And in this, or some such way, a confident tradition says, he killed the poor Medical Graduate there and then.

One tries always to hope not: but Varnhagen is positive, though the other Histories say nothing of it.

God knows.

The man was a Prince; no Reichshofrath, Speyer-Wetzlar KAMMER, or other Supreme Court, would much trouble itself, except with formal shakings of the wig, about such a peccadillo.


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