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Chap. XVII.
MARIENLYST.
259
lund, where the fireworks blaze of a summer’s eve; the
bathing-place of Klampenborg, on the Sound—all form
agreeable promenades on an idle day; but there is
nothing more to say about them. Blue fresh or blue salt
water (as the case may be), beech-trees, deer, a villa
residence—when you have described one, you have said all
that is or can be said about them. But the neighbourhood
of Lyngby is a Vale of Tempe, and in early May the
market-women come into town bearing baskets loaded
with the lilac flowers of the Primula farinosa, mounted
into little nosegays. The steamer to Elsinore will leave
you at Bellevue, from which you may visit in a carriage
the prettiest sites in the neighbourhood of Copenhagen.
MARIENLYST.
April 2ßth.—Flytte-dag has at length arrived, and
to-day we leave our apartments in the Amaliegade,
according to law, clean swept and garnished. It’s an
awful affair quitting Copenhagen. For the last three
days cartloads of furniture have been carried off in
succession, gradually reducing us to the strict nécessaire
of chairs and bedstead (I myself retired at once in
dignity to my old quarters at the “ Royal ”). We are,
however, at last under way, and embark on board the
fast steamboat “ Horatio,” which in two hours’ time
lands us at our destination. The weather is bright,
but the wind easterly, and its sharpness gives proof of
having passed over the broken ice of the northern
latitudes. Vegetation has not advanced for the last three
weeks. The buds of the horse-chesnuts swell, look
ready to burst and unfold their leaves—but don’t.
They will all come into leaf in the space of
twenty-s 2
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