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Chap. XXXIV.
CONVENT CHURCH.
73
Sir Otto Crump and his noble and high-born
lady-Dame Anna Locke. While deciphering his
epitaph-ium on the carved stone, thinking how calm and
quiet must have been his end, removed far from
this world’s strife in placid Mariager, Old Mortality
opens wide a gate, and there before my eyes lay
extended the worthy Bishop, all dust and bones past
corruption. By his side lay the bodies of two cloistered
nuns—I trust no facetious inuendo of the early
Be-formers—and in the same sepulchral chamber lie
bundled together old crucifixes, figures of saints, and
objects of papistic times, placed aside until again
wanted.
This convent church, whitewashed and slated, rising
from her leafy frame, would have inspired the muse of
some poet of the last century—Gray, Goldsmith, or
the like. But here am I gossiping about Mariager,
and quite forgetting her early history. “Early history!”
you reply ; “no doubt about that; some establishment of
fat monks or idle nuns, all in honour of the Virgin—
trust them to choose a good situation! plenty of fish,
plenty of game in the forest hard by : they knew well
what they were about, forsooth!”
But Mary the Virgin had nought to do with this
foundation. Mary, a virgin, and a luckless one too,
endowed with two hearts (“ La femme à deux cæurs,”
of which I have heard say, is no novelty),—hers was a
sad history. It was long, long ago there lived on the
banks of the deep blue fiorde we now gaze upon a
youthful damsel, before-mentioned Mary, the fairest, the
richest in all North Jutland: she had suitors, as you
may imagine, in plenty—all Jutland at her feet—but
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