The Queen wept tears of sorrow when she heard of this sad tragedy.
"What a man," she had written, "is this Andreas Hofer, the leader of the Tyrolese. A peasant has become a captain, and what a captain! His weapon, prayer, and his ally, God. Oh, that the time of the Maid of Orleans might return that the enemy might be driven from the land!"
It was about this time that Napoleon permitted Minister Hardenburg to return to his duties. At once affairs began to prosper.
"And the Queen," Marianne wrote to her mother, "is to take a journey. She is to go with the King and her children to all the places where she had lived as Crown Princess, to Paretz, to Oranienburg, and Peacock Island."
At Paretz the Queen walked up and down the avenues with her husband. Suddenly she turned to him very solemnly and said:
"Fritz, you have made me very happy, you and our children."
But Napoleon had no mind to add to her happiness.
"Pay your war debt!" he kept crying.
"We have no money," said the poor Prussians.
"Then I rule you until you do," was Napoleon's unchanging answer.