I know I have made you great promises; but I am not in a condition to keep them.
I will give you up the Half of the sum which the late King [our Grandfather] lent you; [Supra, pp.

161, 162.] I think you will have every reason to be satisfied with that.' I answered, That my regard for him had never been of an interested nature; that I would never ask anything of him, but the continuance of his friendship; and did not wish one sou, if it would in the least inconvenience him.

'No, no,' said he, 'you shall have those 100,000 thalers; I have destined them for you .-- People will be much surprised,' continued he, 'to see me act quite differently from what they had expected.

They imagine I am going to lavish all my treasures, and that money will become as common as pebbles at Berlin: but they will find I know better.

I mean to increase my Army, and to leave all other things on the old footing.