Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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matters, from the GNADENWAHL to the late Double-Marriage Question.
Even his outward manner of life, in its flesh-and-blood
physiognomy,--we search in vain through tons of dusty lucubration
totally without interest, to catch here and there the corner of a
feature of it. Let us try Schulenburg. We shall know at any rate
that to Grumkow, in the Autumn 1731, these words were luculent and
significant: consciously they tell us something of young
Friedrich; unconsciously a good deal of Lieutenant-General
Schulenburg, who with his strict theologies, his military
stiffnesses, his reticent, pipe-clayed, rigorous and yet human
ways, is worth looking at, as an antique species extinct in our
time. He is just home from Vienna, getting towards his own
domicile from Berlin, from Custrin, and has seen the Prince.
He writes in a wretched wayside tavern, or post-house, between
Custrin and Landsberg,--dates his letter "WIEN (Vienna)," as if he
were still in the imperial City, so off-hand is he.

No. 1. TO HIS EXCELLENZ (add a shovelful of other titles)
LIEUTENANT-GENERAL HERR BARON VON GRUMKOW, PRESIDENT OF THE
KRIEGES- UND DOMANEN-DIRECTORIUM, OF THE (in fact, Vice-President
of the Tobacco-Parliament) IN BERLIN.

"WIEN [properly Berlin-Landsberg Highway,
other side of Custrin], 4th October, 1731.

"I regret much to have missed the pleasure of seeing your
Excellency again before I left Berlin. I set off between seven and
eight in the morning yesterday, and got to Custrin [seventy miles
or so] before seven at night. But the Prince had gone, that day,
to the Bailliage of Himmelstadt" (up the Warta Country, eastward
some five-and-thirty miles, much preparatory digging and stubbing
there); and he "slept at Massin [circuitous road back], where he
shot a few stags this morning. As I was told he might probably
dine at Kammin [still nearer Custrin, twelve miles from it;
half that distance east of Zorndorf,--mark that, O reader (see
Map)] with Madam Colonel Schoning, I drove thither. He had
arrrived there a moment before me." And who is Madam Schoning,
lady of Kammin here?--Patience, reader.