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gifts, and that in so stupidly wearisome a manner, that I am just ready to fling dish and plate on the floor, and repay hospitality by a sermon of rebuke, if I only had courage enough. But I am silent and suffer, and grumble and scold in silence. This is not very polite, but I cannot help it! I was yesterday at one of these big dinners--a horrible feast! Two elderly gentlemen, lawyers, sat opposite me, sat and dozed while they opened their mouths and put in the delicacies which were offered to them. At our peasant weddings, where people also sit three hours at the table, there are, nevertheless, talks and toasts, gifts for the bride and bridegroom, and fiddlers to play at every dish; but here one has nothing but food. And the dinners in Denmark! I cannot but think of them, with their few but exquisite dishes, and animated, cheerful guests, who merely were sometimes too loud in their zeal for talking and making themselves heard; and the wit, the jokes, the stories, the toasts, the conversations, that merry, free, lively laissez-aller, which distinguishes Danish social life; in truth, it was champagne--champagne for soul and body at those entertainments. But these here are destined for hell, as Heiberg says in A Soul After Death, and they are termed the tiresome. They should be introduced into the Litany. On another occasion, however, Fortune was kind to
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