much with her; wails forth, in beautiful adagios, emotions for
which there is no other utterance at present. He has liberty of
Custrin and the neighborhood; out of Custrin he is not to lodge,
any night, without leave had of the Commandant. Let him walk
warily; and in good earnest study to become a new creature, useful
for something in the Domain Sciences and otherwise.



Chapter III.

WILHELMINA IS TO WED THE PRINCE OF BAIREUTH.

Crown-Prince Friedrich being settled so far, his Majesty takes up
the case of Wilhelmina, the other ravelled skein lying on hand.
Wilhelmina has been prisoner in her Apartment at Berlin all this
while: it is proper Wilhelmina be disposed of; either in wedlock,
filially obedient to the royal mind; or in some much sterner way,
"within four walls," it is whispered, if disobedient.

Poor Wilhelmina never thought of disobeying her parents:
only, which of them to obey? King looks towards the Prince of
Baireuth again, agreed on before those hurly-burlies now past;
Queen looks far otherwards. Queen Sophie still desperately
believes in the English match for Wilhelmina; and has subterranean
correspondences with that Court; refusing to see that the
negotiation is extinct there. Grumkow himself, so over-victorious
in his late task, is now heeling towards England; "sincere in his
wish to be well with us," thinks Dickens: Grumkow solaces her
Majesty with delusive hopes in the English quarter: "Be firm,