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THREE:THE KING AND HIS SERVANT.��I have now the honor, and, what is still more, the pleasure of being with the king at Potsdam. I have the honor to dine and sup with him almost every day. He has more wit than I have wit to tell you; speaks solidly and knowingly on all kinds of subjects; and I am much mistaken if, with the experience of four campaigns, he is not the best officer of his army. He has several persons with whom he lives with almost the familiarity of a friend, but he has no favorite. He shows a natural politeness for every body who is about him. For one who has been four days about his person, you will say, I pretend to know a great deal about his character. But what I tell you you may depend upon. With more time I shall know as much of him as he will let me know, and no one of his ministry knows any more.��

FORE:Fortunately for the young man��s mother, she was in her grave. His father was at that time commandant of K?nigsberg, in high favor with the king. His illustrious grandfather on his mother��s side, Field-marshal Wartensleben, was still living. For half106 a century he had worthily occupied the most eminent posts of honor. The tears, the agonizing entreaties of these friends were not of the slightest avail. The king��s heart was as impervious to appeals for mercy as are the cliffs of Sinai. ��Monsieur, there is nothing I wish so much as to possess all your writings. Pray do communicate them to me without reserve. If there be among your manuscripts any that you wish to conceal from the eyes of the public, I engage to keep them in profoundest secrecy. FORE:��The king was fond of children; he liked to have his grand-nephews about him. One day, while the king sat at work in his cabinet, the younger of the two, a boy of eight or nine, was playing ball about the room, and knocked it once and again into the king��s writing operation, who twice or oftener flung it back to him, but next time put it in his pocket, and went on. ��Please your majesty, give it me back,�� begged the boy, and again begged: majesty took no notice; continued writing. Till at length came, in the tone of indignation, ��Will your majesty give me my ball, then?�� The king looked up; found the little Hohenzollern planted firm, hands on haunches, and wearing quite a peremptory562 air. ��Thou art a brave little fellow. They won��t get Silesia out of thee?�� cried he, laughing, and flinging him his ball.��194To his mother he was very considerate in all his manifestations of filial affection, while, at the same time, he caused her very distinctly to understand that she was to take no share whatever in the affairs of government. When she addressed him, upon his accession to the throne, as ��Your Majesty,�� he replied, ��Call me son. That is the title of all others most agreeable to me.�� He decreed to her the title of ��Her Majesty the Queen-mother.�� The palace of Monbijou was assigned her, where she was surrounded with every luxury, treated with the most distinguished attention, and her court was the acknowledged centre of fashionable society.