One followed the Faubourg St. Honoré and the Avenue Friedland as far as the Triumphal Arch, till it reached the Porte Maillot; a second proceeded to the Porte des Ternes by the Avenue des Ternes; a third to the Porte Dauphine by the Avenue Ührich.

THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN DRAMATIS PERSONÆ WALLENSTEIN, Duke of Friedland, Generalissimo of the Imperial Forces in the Thirty Years' War.

DUCHESS OF FRIEDLAND, Wife of Wallenstein.

THEKLA, her Daughter, Princess of Friedland.

Am therefore forced T' insist thereon, that he do formally, Irrevocably break with the Emperor, Else not a Swede is trusted to Duke Friedland.

We know, Duke Friedland!

And while he prudently demeans himself, And gives himself no actual importance, He will be let appear whate'er he likes; And who dares doubt that Friedland will appear A mighty Prince to his last dying hour?

Duke Friedland is as others, A fire-new Noble, whom the war hath raised To price and currency, a Jonah's gourd, An over-night creation of court-favor, Which with an undistinguishable ease Makes Baron or makes Prince. WALLENSTEIN (in extreme agitation).

But ere I sink down into nothingness, Leave off so little, who began so great, Ere that the world confuses me with those Poor wretches whom a day creates and crumbles, This age and after ages speak my name With hate and dread; and Friedland be redemption For each accursed deed.

To the Emperor alone Clung Friedland in that storm which gather'd round him At Regensburg in the Dietand he dropp'd thee!

Then betwixt thee and him (confess it Friedland!)

* ACT III SCENE I A Chamber in the House of the Duchess of Friedland COUNTESS TERZKY, THEKLA, LADY NEUBRUNN (the two latter sit at the same table at work) COUNTESS (watching them from the opposite side).

There lives no second Friedland: thou, my child, Hast not to fear thy mother's destiny.

He thinks to carry off Duke Friedland's daughter!

Friedland's wife may be permitted No longer to hope that.

In the night only Friedland's stars can beam.

XIII A spacious Room in the Duke of Friedland's Palace.

It is the soul that builds itself a body, And Friedland's camp will not remain unfill'd.

He therefore consulted the Duke of Friedland, whose approbation might supply the want of authority from the Emperor and to whom the Bohemian generals were referred by an express edict of the court in the last extremity.

The moment had at last arrived when more than ordinary satisfaction was to be done to the wounded pride of the Duke of Friedland.

Saxony had been stripped of troops by Arnheim, who was pursuing his conquests in Silesia; not without a secret design, it was generally supposed, of favoring the entrance of the Duke of Friedland into that electorate and of thus driving the irresolute John George into peace with the Emperor.

Indifferent toward the fate of that country, and weary of the restraint which his union with the Elector imposed upon him, the Duke of Friedland eagerly seized the opportunity of separating from this burdensome associate, and prosecuting, with renewed earnestness, his favorite plans.

Three cannon shots, fired by Count Colloredo from the castle of Weissenfels, announced the king's approach; and at this concerted signal, the light troops of the Duke of Friedland, under the command of the Croatian General Isolani, moved forward to possess themselves of the villages lying upon the Rippach.

The Duke of Friedland had retreated thither, and was followed on the morrow by the scattered remains of his army, without artillery, without colors, and almost without arms.

The severe winter-weather of 1806-7, by preventing the Emperor from destroying the Russians, which he was on the point of doing, was prejudicial to the interests of Poland; for the ultimate effect was, to compel France to treat with Russia as equal with equal, notwithstanding the crowning victory of Friedland.