One point only we will note, in these Pandour turmoilings.

From Skalitz, the first stage of his march, he answers a Letter of Brother Henri's:-- TO PRINCE HENRI (at Tachopau in Saxony).

"What you write to me of my Sister of Baireuth [that she has been in extremity, cannot yet write, and must not be told of the Prince of Prussia's death lest it kill her] makes me tremble! Next to our Mother, she is what I have the most tenderly loved in this world.

She is a Sister who has my heart and all my confidence; and whose character is of price beyond all the crowns in this universe.

From my tenderest years, I was brought up with her: you can conceive how there reigns between us that indissoluble bond of mutual affection and attachment for life, which in all other cases, were it only from disparity of ages, is impossible.