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cahn

Heeeee!

From:

cahn

omg, this is awesome snark!

to be the carrier of tittle-tattle would be the beau ideal of a diplomatist

HEE.

if he wanted wits, Fritz had Voltaire, he didn't need a small scale wit like Hanbury Williams.

Lol! Well, it's true...

So at a guess, Peter would have been perceived by contrast by Villiers (and possibly Mitchell) as someone who wasn't just England-friendly but actually familiar with enough with the place to send reliable reports home to Prussia instead of talking rubbish and flattery a la Lentulus.

This seems very plausible!

From:

cahn

Of course, now we (you) think Fredersdorf almost certainly wasn't there at all, so there's that :P

He probably didn't want to report on fistulas!

From:

cahn

Oh nooooo :( Heh, the funny thing is that I wouldn't have minded Peter Keith dying instead of Katte nearly as much if mildred hadn't convinced me through fic that he was really cool :P

From:

cahn

what is it with FW and random animals?? Though small frogs sound a lot better than bears in the bedroom, I guess :P Oh, and now I've just read the entire thread. OK, maybe FW didn't have a thing for random animals :P

Yeah, poor AW!

From:

cahn

I'm sorry I just did not keep up on this readthrough like I'd said I would! I'm still going, just... much slower than you are. I should be able to finish it before you get through the second volume of the memoirs, though, even at your super-rapid pace :PP

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mildred_of_midgard

Fictional Fredersdorf was totally there! Also, I think what Fritz wrote to Wilhelmine just makes our respective opening scenes more plausible: if he did come, many precautions were taken.

He probably didn't want to report on fistulas!

Like

selenak said in regards to "Ambassadors have it rough", there's really no way to spin that! (Though I would love to see someone try. :P)