LETTER XLVIII.
April 19.
I THANK you for your two letters. I waited for my answer from
court before I wrote to you. I was under continual apprehension
lest my mother should apply to the minister, in order to defeat
my purpose. But I have received my dismission: {136} and here it
is. I will not tell you with what regret it was given to me, nor
what the minister said in his letter to me; for that would renew
your lamentations. The money which I sent to my mother for, I
shall not want; for the hereditary Prince has made me a present
-- and it was accompanied by a few words which affected me almost
to tears.
