Note 125 — Chapter XXIX · THE THIRD CAMPAIGN OF THE SEVEN YEARS’ WAR.

“The loss of his Wilhelmina, had there been no other grief, has darkened all his life to Frederick. Readers are not prepared for the details of grief we could give, and the settled gloom of mind they indicate. A loss irreparable and immeasurable; the light of life, the one heart that loved him, gone. All winter he dwells internally on the sad matter, though soon falling silent on it to others.”—Carlyle, vol. v., p. 318.