"there is a woman who has the exact proportions of Adelaide. Who could that young person be who is with her?"
"Milord," said Mersburg embarrassed, "I think that Your Highness is mistaken; the woman you see is much smaller than the princess and the one who is with her appears old to me.
"Do you think so? That is how we see the features of the one we seek everywhere. This mistake will happen to me perhaps more than once in the course of our travels … Adelaide, Adelaide, come to calm the trouble in my soul, come and pardon your august husband, come appease the sorrow which devours me and seeing it even more intense than your own, pity in your heart will replace all the feelings of hatred which you have for the most unfortunate of men."
At that point the two women moved off and the two men did likewise and until they reached the place where they stopped for the night, Frederick didn't say a word. A few days later they were at Hamburg where we are going to leave them in order to go back to the two women.
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