favorite palace, and I have passed many pleasant and happy days
there, but because none of my other palaces are so appropriate for a
prince who is discontented with his king. I have made that
experience myself, and I give you Rheinsberg, as my father gave it
to me. Go to Rheinsberg when you are angry with me and the world;
there you can pass the first months of your marriage, and God grant
it may be a happy one!"

The prince answered him with a cold smile, and begged leave to
withdraw, that he might make the necessary preparations for his
wedding. "We will both make our preparations," said the king, as he
bade the prince farewell--"you with your major-domo, and I with
Baron Pollnitz, whom I shall send as ambassador to Cassel."




CHAPTER XI.

THE TRAVELLING MUSICIANS.


The feasts, illuminations, and balls given in honor of the newly-
married couple, Henry and his wife, the Princess Wilhelmina, were at
an end. The prince and his followers had withdrawn to Rheinsberg,
and many were the rumors in Berlin of the brilliant feasts with
which he welcomed his beautiful bride. She was truly lovely, and the
good Berliners, who had received her with such hearty greetings when
she appeared with the prince on the balcony, or showed herself to
the people in an open carriage, declared there could be no happier