His tone BRUSQUE ET DECIDE.

Dinner lasted one hour.
"Returned to Potsdam to assist at the Autumn Reviews", 21st-23d September, 1784.

[Rodenbeck, iii.

313.] "Dinner very splendid, magnificently served; twelve handsome Pages, in blue or rose-colored velvet, waited on the Guests,--these being forty old rude Warriors booted and spurred.

King spoke of the French, approvingly: 'But,' added he, 'the Court spoils everything.