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Chap. XXVI.
MYSTERIOUS MARRIAGE.
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over the woods, and along the endless lime avenues: were
pointed out the Arre-Sø, much improved by a beechen
framework, and then scrambled up a høi—Maglehøi they
term it—commanding the Roeskilde as well as the
Ise fiorde, its opposite coast, even to Rørvig, a place of
note in bygone days, where the ancient sovereigns of
the land were elected.
A curious history is related in the archives of the
police to have occurred at Rørvig in the middle of the
last century.
A Russian man-of-war anchored one day at the
entrance of the horde. Denmark was at peace with all
countries, so its appearance excited no remarks. The
fishermen of the village examined it through their
glasses, and then thought no more about the matter.
The parson went to his bed as usual, when suddenly
he was awakened by armed men in masks standing
round his couch. Holding a loaded pistol to his head,
they ordered him to dress and follow them to the church,
where there was a marriage to perform. Trembling he
accompanied them to the church, which he found to be
already brilliantly illuminated, and many personages
assembled around the altar. And now the bride and
bridegroom make their appearance; a man richly dressed,
evidently a person of consequence—he looks gloomy and
abstracted; the bride a fair young lady of great personal
attractions, sad and pale as alabaster. The ceremony
is commenced, the marriage-ring placed on the lady’s
finger, vows exchanged, “ until death do them partall
is now over, when suddenly a flash, followed by the
report of a pistol, resounds through the sacred edifice—
a shriek, one piercing shriek, from the scarcely married
bride, who falls dead in the arms of the surrounding
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