Daun and he again sit waiting, till they see farther.
Rapid Friedrich is obliged to wait; watching Daun and the Dohna-
Russian adventure: slow Daun will continue to wait and watch there,
long weeks and months, after that is settled, that and much else,
fully to his mind! Each is in his impregnable Camp; and each, Daun
especially, has his Divisions and Detachments hovering round him,
near or far, on different strategic errands; each Main-Camp like a
planet with various moons--Mark-Lissa especially, a kind of sun
with planets and comets and planetary moons:--of whose intricate
motions and counter-motions, mostly unimportant to us, we promised
to take no notice, in face of such a crisis just at hand.

By the 6th of July, slow Daun had got hitched into his Camp of
Mark-Lissa; and four days after, Friedrich attending him, was in
Schmottseifen: where again was pause; and there passed nothing
mentionable, even on Friedrich's score; and till July was just
ending, the curtain did not fairly rise. Panse of above two weeks
on Friedrich's part, and of almost three months on Daun's.
Mark-Lissa, an impregnable Camp, is on the Lausitz Border;
with Saxony, Silesia, Bohemia all converging hereabouts, and
Brandenburg itself in the vicinity,--there is not a better place
for waiting on events. Here, accordingly, till well on in
September, Daun sat immovable; not even hitching now,--only
shooting out Detachments, planetary, cometary, at a great rate,
chiefly on his various Russian errands.

Daun, as we said, had been uncomfortably surprised to find, by
degrees, that Invasion was not Friedrich's plan this Year; that the
dramatic parts are redistributed, and that the playing of Fabius-
Cunctator will not now serve one's turn. Daun, who may well be