Carlyle's "History of Friedrich II of Prussia" BOOK VIII.
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the eyes of everybody. I then approached the Queen. She was
obliged to embrace me, the King being close opposite; but I
remarked that her joy was only affected."--Why then, O Princess?
Guess, if you can, the female humors of her Majesty!--

"I turned to my Brother again; I gave him a thousand caresses, and
said the tenderest things to him: to all which he remained cold as
ice, and answered only in monosyllables. I presented the Prince
(my Husband); to whom he did not say one word. I was astonished at
this fashion of procedure! But I laid the blame of it on the King,
who was observing us, and who I judged might be intimidating my
Brother. But even his countenance surprised me: he wore a proud
air, and seemed to look down on everybody."

A much-changed Crown-Prince. What can be the meaning of it?
Neither King nor he appeared at supper: they were supping
elsewhere, with a select circle; and the whisper ran among us, His
Majesty was treating him with great friendliness. At which the
Queen, contrary to hope, could not conceal her secret pique.
"In fact," says Wilhelmina, again too hard on Mamma, "she did not
love her children except as they served her ambitious views."
The fact that it was I, and not she, who had achieved the Prince's
deliverance, was painful to her Majesty: alas, yes, in
some degree!

"Ball having recommenced, Grumkow whispered to me, 'That the King
was pleased with my frank kind ways to my Brother; and not pleased
with my Brother's cold way of returning it: Does he simulate, and
mean still to deceive me? Or IS that all the thanks he has for
Wilhelmina? thinks his Majesty. Go on with your sincerity, Madam;
and for God's sake admonish the Crown-Prince to avoid finessing!'
Crown-Prince, when I did, in some interval of the dance, report
this of Grumkow, and say, Why so changed and cold, then, Brother
of my heart? answered, That he was still the same; and that he had
his reasons for what he did." Wilhelmiua continues; and cannot
understand her Crown-Prince at all:--

"Next morning, by the King's order, he paid me a visit.
The Prince," my Husband, "was polite enough to withdraw, and left