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Chap. IV.
OLD PALACE.
55
round and round, faster and faster, until I wonder their
brains did not remain addled for the rest of their
existence. This ceremony is de rigueur, and if you seat
yourself by a woman of fifty it would be considered a
high breach of gallantry to neglect its performance ;
you have no excuse, for if you feel shy there are
“ cabinets particuliers,” as in the restaurants, closed
round with curtains, concealing those within from the
curious eyes of the bystanders.
The old palace of Haderslev, in which the second
Frederic, as well as other Danish sovereigns, first saw
the light, has long since disappeared. Christian IV.
was married here to his first Queen; and what was
worse, it was on his return to the palace of Haderslev
that his suspicions were first excited against his
morganatic spouse, fair Christina Munk, for, to his horror
and amazement, he found the whitewashed walls of the
corridor scratched over with caricatures of himself, his
wife, and the Rhine Count of Salms—ribald verses,
too—his own head adorned with a broad-brimmed
hat, and other decorations too significant to be
misunderstood.
On the whole, Christian seems to have disliked the
palace of Haderslev as a residence, and in his letters
dated from that place (never was a man so exact—so
precise about little matters) he always seems in a fidget
lest household affairs should go wrong during his
absence. He writes to his chamberlain:—“You must
particularly look after the cook during my absence, and
see she orders in nothing. If there is anything you want,
write to me direct, and I will send it.” The children,
he complains, have a bad custom of running down to
the washerwomen: “They always love to gossip and
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