THE SILESIAN WARS. 174Q-5 75command, in the same way as those of monarch and writer ... He
ran after a universal reputation' (Valori, 1820, I, 226).
A final cause for celebration remained. The whippet Biche was
discovered to have survived the battle of Soor as a prisoner of the
Austrians. She was in the keeping of NSdasti's wife, who was unwill-
ing to let her go, but 'her restitution became almost an article of the
treaty of peace' (Valori, 1820, I, 248).
Biche was received by Frederick's friend Lieutenant-General
Rothenburg. He 'slipped her quietly through the door, without the
king noticing, and in an instant she was standing on the table in front
of him, with her front paws about his neck. Tears of joy sprang into
Frederick's eyes' (Anon., 1787-9, I, 21).