AND TUTOR TO FREDERICK THE NOBLE. 



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minister wlio had informed it in childhood. Were it consistent 

 with the present monograph, we should like to show in detail how 

 the association of tutor and pupil took effect, developed into an 

 enduring relationship, and passes out of our sight only when the 

 curtain was drawn over their earthly lives. 



The connection with the young prince first appears on page 

 107 of a book of some 550 pages — the book we have spoken 

 of — and runs right through it to the end, when the widow and 

 mother of the dead Emperor are seen making daily enquiries of 

 the last moments of his tutor, then 88 years old. 



We have said that the prince was also placed under the 

 authority of a military governor. This authority seems to have 

 been quite shadowy and distant, as General Unruh — whose 

 name has not a very propitious sound — was in weak health. 

 So it came about, more unavoidably than purposely, that Godet 

 dominated the situation for several years. When, however, 

 the prince was older and General Unruh thought he would 

 make his presence felt, he seems to have failed to win the heart 

 of his pupil. 



Under such circumstances it cannot be said that either 

 governor was at fault, but the military tutor none the less con- 

 ceived some jealousy of the civilian. The latter, after an appeal 

 or two to the parental and royal authority, though most heartily 

 supported and furnished with a full endorsement of his conduct, 

 realised that the age of the prince — he was then 13 years old 

 — ^,justified the granting of a more important function to the 

 military element. This was done in 1844. Godet handed his 

 office over to another civil tutor, the famous historian Georg 

 Curtius. Then General Felgermann, who had succeeded 

 General Unruh, had the opportunity in which to gain for 

 himself a share in the attention and affection of the prince. 

 But the heart of the prince somehow remained with the 



Neuchatelois " and his conscience, too, continued to seek 

 nurture from the " Alan of God." 



The prince did not work alone, but had an enmle, a fellow 

 pupil, in the person of young Eodolph von Zastrow, wdiose 

 father had filled the oftice of governor in the principality of 

 ]N"euchritel. 



The tutor's bed was placed between those of his pupils, so 

 near that the prince, an affectionate and clinging nature, would 

 seek the hand of his teacher at nicrht. The children rose at six. 



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The prince's mother came every morning at ten o'clock with 

 her needlework to take her share of the instruction given. 

 The whole savours of plain,- well-ordered home life. 



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