him _de mauvaise humeur_.
It is about this time that he writes to his sister:--

"J'etudie beaucoup, et cela me soulage reellement; mais lorsque
mon esprit fait des retours sur les temps passes, alors les plaies
du coeur se rouvrent et je regrette inutilement les pertes que j'ai
faites."

Chasot, however, soon returned to Germany, and probably in order to be
near the court of Strelitz, took up his abode in the old free town of
Luebeck. He became a citizen of Luebeck in 1754, and in 1759 was made
commander of its militia. Here his life seems to have been very agreeable,
and he was treated with great consideration and liberality. Chasot was
still young, as he was born in 1716, and he now thought of marriage. This
he accomplished in the following manner. There was at that time an artist
of some celebrity at Luebeck,--Stefano Torelli. He had a daughter whom he
had left at Dresden to be educated, and whose portrait he carried about on
his snuff-box. Chasot met him at dinner, saw the snuff-box, fell in love
with the picture, and proposed to the father to marry his daughter
Camilla. Camilla was sent for. She left Dresden, travelled through the
country, which was then occupied by Prussian troops, met the king in his
camp, received his protection, arrived safely at Luebeck, and in the same
year was married to Chasot. Frederic was then in the thick of the Seven
Years' War, but Chasot, though he was again on friendly terms with the
king, did not offer him his sword. He was too happy at Luebeck with his
Camilla, and he made himself useful to the king by sending him recruits.
One of the recruits he offered was his son, and in a letter, April 8,
1760, we see the king accepting this young recruit in the most gracious
terms:--

"J'accepte volontiers, cher de Chasot, la recrue qui vous doit son
etre, et je serai parrain de l'enfant qui vous naitra, au cas que
ce soit un fils. Nous tuons les hommes, tandis que vous en
faites."

It was a son, and Chasot writes:--

"Si ce garcon me ressemble, Sire, il n'aura pas une goutte de sang
dans ses veines qui ne soit a vous."

M. de Schloezer, who is himself a native of Luebeck, has described the later
years of Chasot's life in that city with great warmth and truthfulness.
The diplomatic relations of the town with Russia and Denmark were not
without interest at that time, because Peter III., formerly Duke of
Holstein, had declared war agai