Vol. XII. (of XXI.) by Thomas Carlyle]@TWC D-Link book Vol. XII. (of XXI.) 46/61 "What news have you of the Enemy ?" was Friedrich's first question. Schwerin has no news whatever; only that the Enemy is far off, hanging in long thin straggle from Olmutz westward. "I have a spy out," said Schwerin; "but he has not returned yet,"-- nor ever will, he might have added. If diligent readers will now take to their Map, and attend day by day, an invincible Predecessor has compelled what next follows into human intelligibility, and into the Diary Form, for their behoof;--readers of an idler turn can skip: but this confused hurry-scurry of marches issues in something which all will have to attend to. This is the day when the Old Dessauer makes appearance with the first brigades of his Camp at Gottin. |