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52
GRAVENSTEIN.
Chap. IV.
the King had engraved from memory with his own
hand a view of the Castle of Copenhagen, such as it
existed in his more happy days. One treasure he
preserved, and one alone, which never quitted him, and
that the miniature portrait of his lost love Dyveke—his
only consolation; and here, for the space of sixteen
years, he paced round and round, weary but still going,
for he had no other mode of exercise—on, on, like a
squirrel in a cage—till the death of his uncle Frederic
brought better times—release, kind treatment, and
comfort in the Castle of Kallundborg, from Christian
his successor.
AABEN-RAA.
Crossing over the new-built bridge of boats, we quitted
the isle of Ais and made our way cross-country,
occasionally catching a glimpse of the fiorde, its wooded
banks and islands, for Graastein, or Gravenstein, a
handsome chateau—so called from the gray stone of which it
is built (unwhitewashed)—one of the numerous
residences of the exiled Duke of Augustenborg. The
village appertaining to the castle has a flourishing
appearance even for Denmark—a country where poverty
and want are almost unknown. We were induced
to leave our carriage by the promise of some wondrous
beech-trees in the forest, twenty-five feet in
circumference ; but we never found them, and the old
castellan knew nothing about them, or indeed
anything else but his long china pipe, which he removed
from his mouth reluctantly to reply to our
questions. The chateau was built by the Grand
Chancellor Ahlefeldt, of whom it was purchased. The lake,
which now surrounds it, in former days formed a
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