It is carried straight to Freytag's; and at eleven in the morning, Collini eagerly attends to have it opened.

Freytag,--to whom Schmidt has returned from Embden, but no Answer from Potsdam, or the least light about those SKRIPTUREN,--is in the depths of embarrassment; cannot open, till he know completely what items and SKRIPTUREN he is to make sure of on opening: "I cannot, till the King's answer come!"-- "But your written promise to Voltaire ?" "Tush, that was my own private promise, Monsieur; my own private prediction of what would happen; a thing PRO FORMA", and to save Madame Denis's life.

Patience; perhaps it will arrive this very day.

Come again to me at three P.M.;--there is Berlin post today; then again in three days:--I surely expect the Order will come by this post or next; God grant it may be by this!" Collini attends at three; there is Note from Fredersdorf: King's Majesty absent in Preussen all this while; expected now in two days.

Freytag's face visibly brightens: "Wait till next post; three days more, only wait!" [Varnhagen, pp.