P: Please don't hang the long fellow who has run away.
(sorry, I still find the mention of "long fellows" hilarious even in this context)
Ego: Blood crimes may not be pardonable, but in cases like this on, your Majesty could surely put mercy before judgment. To which the two Generals at my right and left side agreed.
GAH
despite the fact Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow tried to prepare the way for him with questions and speeches like these: "The Prince surely wants something if he caresses you like that." item: "The Prince surely weighs something in his heart which he wants to say." it. "Just say what it is. If it's something good, we all will help you and plead with you." But he couldn't push himself to do it. Whereupon Regina threatened him after dinner that if he wouldn't say something this time, he'd be whipped, as she told me the following day, and said she was relying on the fact I was present and could add a word or two.
OMG that POOR KID. "We, the actual adults in this room, are too scared of FW, so we will ask you, the SMALL CHILD, to do this instead!" I mean, they're not wrong to be scared, and at least the fellow doesn't get hanged, but... argh.
Re: A Reverend at Dear Old Wusterhausen: How to successfully save someone's life if you're five
I... he was being sarcastic here, right?
P: Please don't hang the long fellow who has run away.
(sorry, I still find the mention of "long fellows" hilarious even in this context)
Ego: Blood crimes may not be pardonable, but in cases like this on, your Majesty could surely put mercy before judgment. To which the two Generals at my right and left side agreed.
GAH
despite the fact Generals Seckendorff and Grumbkow tried to prepare the way for him with questions and speeches like these: "The Prince surely wants something if he caresses you like that." item: "The Prince surely weighs something in his heart which he wants to say." it. "Just say what it is. If it's something good, we all will help you and plead with you." But he couldn't push himself to do it. Whereupon Regina threatened him after dinner that if he wouldn't say something this time, he'd be whipped, as she told me the following day, and said she was relying on the fact I was present and could add a word or two.
OMG that POOR KID. "We, the actual adults in this room, are too scared of FW, so we will ask you, the SMALL CHILD, to do this instead!" I mean, they're not wrong to be scared, and at least the fellow doesn't get hanged, but... argh.