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GURRE.
Chap. XIX.
denly discovered it was unhealthy ; there was a miasma
which rose from the glen after nightfall; during their
last visit they had decidedly felt a touch of intermittent
fever: so the wells grew out of fashion. Be that as it
may, I know no place like Ramløsa; it has a cachet of
its own, though deprived of the charms of
gamblingtables, and unhonoured by the presence of the once
youthful and gallant Crown Prince of Sweden.
We returned to Helsingborg, embarked on board the
“ Horatio,” which, after a ten minutes’ passage, landed
us safe on the pier of Elsinore.
Friday, May 20th.—Common-prayer day, the “
holyday ” par excellence of the Danish church—dactylised
holiday—a commemoration of something very dreadful,
nobody seems exactly to know what—fire, pestilence,
or tempest; each individual will give you a separate
account. As I am only a stranger, it’s no affair of mine.
I shall ever look on it as the first day of spring;
all the old people appear for the first time in the open
air. Up till to-day they sent forth their children, like
doves from the ark, to see if spring really did approach,
and they returned bearing branches of fresh-opened
beech to ornament the domestic hearth as token of the
coming spring, bringing, as they call it, “ the summer
into town; ” you met them in procession, like Birnam
wood coming to Dunsinane. To-day, for the first time,
they returned branchless; so spring is, I suppose, really
come.
GURRE.
Saturday, 21st.—Drove in the afternoon to Gurre,
three quarters of an hour distant, a place of historic
interest, though little remains now to gratify the eye.
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