Without a miracle, the King cannot live,"-- thinks our dark friend.
"The Prince-Royal is truly affected (VERITABLEMENT ATTENDRI) at the King's situation; has his eyes full of water, has wept the eyes out of his head: has schemed in all ways to contrive a commodious bed for the King; wouldn't go away from Potsdam.

King forced him away; he is to return Saturday afternoon.

The Prince-Royal has been heard to say, 'If the King will let me live in my own way, I would give an arm to lengthen his life for twenty years.' King always calls him Fritzchen.

But Fritzchen," thinks Seckendorf Junior, "knows nothing about business.

The King is aware of it; and said in the face of him one day: 'If thou begin at the wrong end with things, and all go topsy-turvy after I am gone, I will laugh at thee out of my grave!'" [Seckendorf (BARON), _Journal Secret;_ cited in Forster, ii.