"The same; but remember that, while he ridiculed religion, he was constrained to honour that officer for his consistency.  But his moral courage was exhibited on a very different occasion.  Now, you must remember what sort of a man Frederick was,--he just resembled a spoiled child, who could not brook the slightest thwarting of his will or pleasure.  In some things he was a miser, and in others just the reverse.  He wore his uniform till it was patched and threadbare, while he gave two dollars each for cherries in the winter.  He would pay enormous sums to secure a singer, and then refuse to allow the opera- house to be lighted with wax-candles, so that the pleasure of the evening was spoiled by the smell of tallow.  He was, unhappily, well- known in the army for two peculiarities,--first, a temper of such iron unforgiveness that, if he had taken offence at any one, that man's career was closed, he was never employed again; and, second, a memory of such tenacity that not a hope existed of entrapping him into forgetfulness.