[Preuss, _Friedrich mit Verwandten und Freunden,_ p.

281.] Small promotion, in comparison with hope, thought the poor Lieutenant; but had to rest satisfied with it; and struggle to understand that perhaps he was fit for nothing bigger, and that he must exert himself to do this small thing well.

Hardness of heart in high places! Friedrich, one is glad to see, had not forgotten the poor fellow, could he have done better with him.

Some ten years hence, quite incidentally, there came to Keith, one morning, a fine purse of money from his Majesty, one pretty gift in Keith's experience;--much the topic in Berlin, while a certain solemn English gentleman happened to be passing that way (whom we mean to detain a little by and by), who reports it for us with all the circumstances.

[Sir Jonas Hanway, _Travels,_ &c.