WELP. Something was demanding to be moved to the Rheinsberg fanfic prompts tag. :D
With you on SD and Caroline.
What choice of weapons, though? Or are they going to do a wrestling and boxing combination again?
Given what happened when Hervey fought a duel and *didn't* use pistols, and given the shade G2 is throwing at FW's courage, probably pistols?
But for maximum crackfic hilarity, wrestling and boxing combination, totally.
Fritz and G2 can bond over fox-hunting, though.
True, although I recall from your first write-up that G2 was on board with hunting game that gives you some kind of challenge? And it was primarily Amelia I was thinking of: riding and hunting were her big passions, and Fritz needs to stay on her good side at least a little during the big England/Hannover (Ha! See, I'm using the German spelling already :P) conflict with Prussia, so he grits his teeth and hunts a little. 1733-1740 shows us what Fritz is capable of when he stands to get something out of it.
I found the original passage in Hervey's memoirs where he tells that story (of G2 going "Fox hunting WTF, English people?), and it's as great as Horowitz' paraphrase. Will quote at length when I find the time.
Found it!
When the Duke of Grafton notified his design to go into the country, the King told him it was a pretty occupation for a man of quality, and at his age, to be spending all his time in tormenting a poor fox, that was generally a much better beast than any of those that pursued him; for the fox hurts no other animal but for his subsistence, whilst those brutes who hurt him did it only for the pleasure they took in hurting. The Duke of Grafton said he did it for his health. The King asked him why he could not as well walk or ride post for his health ; and said, if there was any pleasure in the chase, he was sure the Duke of Grafton could know nothing of it; "for," added his Majesty, "with your great corps of twenty stone weight, no horse, I am sure, can carry you within hearing, much less within sight, of your hounds." This last dialogue I was present at.
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Re: Hervey's Memoirs: The Prussia Connection
With you on SD and Caroline.
What choice of weapons, though? Or are they going to do a wrestling and boxing combination again?
Given what happened when Hervey fought a duel and *didn't* use pistols, and given the shade G2 is throwing at FW's courage, probably pistols?
But for maximum crackfic hilarity, wrestling and boxing combination, totally.
Fritz and G2 can bond over fox-hunting, though.
True, although I recall from your first write-up that G2 was on board with hunting game that gives you some kind of challenge? And it was primarily Amelia I was thinking of: riding and hunting were her big passions, and Fritz needs to stay on her good side at least a little during the big England/Hannover (Ha! See, I'm using the German spelling already :P) conflict with Prussia, so he grits his teeth and hunts a little. 1733-1740 shows us what Fritz is capable of when he stands to get something out of it.
I found the original passage in Hervey's memoirs where he tells that story (of G2 going "Fox hunting WTF, English people?), and it's as great as Horowitz' paraphrase. Will quote at length when I find the time.
Found it!
When the Duke of Grafton notified his design to go into the country, the King told him it was a pretty occupation for a man of quality, and at his age, to be spending all his time in tormenting a poor fox, that was generally a much better beast than any of those that pursued him; for the fox hurts no other animal but for his subsistence, whilst those brutes who hurt him did it only for the pleasure they took in hurting. The Duke of Grafton said he did it for his health. The King asked him why he could not as well walk or ride post for his health ; and said, if there was any pleasure in the chase, he was sure the Duke of Grafton could know nothing of it; "for," added his Majesty, "with your great corps of twenty stone weight, no horse, I am sure, can carry you within hearing, much less within sight, of your hounds." This last dialogue I was present at.