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Chap. XXXIV. BARONESS OF LINDENBORG.
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accompanied by a band of musicians; at each paroxysm
they burst forth into melody, adding to the torments of
the sufferer. She reaches Aalborg, and submits to the
surgeon’s knife—an operation of no avail. Grim Death
is fast approaching: she sends for the Bishop, and on
her death-bed makes a full and true confession of the
murder of her husband. She wished for more liberty
for the indulgence of her guilty passions. She died;
but oft on a wintry night the passing traveller still hears
the tramp of the litter-bearers and horses, with the
agonising shrieks of the suffering lady, surpassing in
shrillness the trumpets and clarions, lured, like the
gongs of an Indian suttee, to conceal them from the
horror-stricken villagers. It is one o’clock—the very
recollection of this story gives me the “ creeps ”—it is
pleasant to see in the morning twilight the spire of
St. Budolph, and to be lodged safe and sound away
from all ghosts and goblins at the hotel Phoenix in the
city of Aalborg.
VOL. II.
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