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HIRSCHHOLM.
Chap. XXII.
with a red-hot nail) on the back of it. We were tired and
hot, and glad to adjourn to the village inn and get
something to drink. In the common room of the inn hangs
a portrait—well executed too—of Juliana, bearing date
1755, with a complimentary inscription, regretting,
although her features were portrayed on the canvas,
her virtues could not be expressed also; and Tyge
Wilsted was grateful; to him Juliana had proved a
kind patroness—she had honoured his house with her
presence, and granted it a free licence to sell beer.
Hirschholm appeared animated: hussars in their
uniforms paced about, and rough-riders galloped their
unbroken chargers around the rotten Champ-de-Mars,
appearing and flitting picturesquely among the trees.
So, as rit is too sultry to return, suppose we sit down
quietly on the grass, and I will tell you something about
the early history of the place, which I can best illustrate
by giving a slight sketch of the court and times of its
foundress Queen Madalena.
Frederic IV., as we all know, was a loosish sort of an
individual, and did not live happily with his queen, Louisa
of Mecklenburg, a gloomy, jealous-minded woman—at
least there is every reason to suppose so ; otherwise he
would have scarcely, nine years previous to her decease,
have married * with the left hand Anne Sophia Re
vent-low, daughter of his grand-chancellor — a most
extraor-dinary proceeding on his part, even in that century of
slack morality. Queen Louisa, as was natural, considered
herself an injured wife. Had she been less gloomy and
disagreeable, this catastrophe probably might have been
* And not the first, for he had previously contracted his “
conscience ” marriage with the Countess Viereck.
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