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Cuap. XLVIII.
OLDENBORG PORTRAITS.
273
unlike the haughty and imperious Castlemaine, whom I
have already met with in Rosenborg; the third, a lady
of King Charles’s court, surpassingly lovely. Not to
linger, we have, among many others of interest, Queen
Louisa of England in all her youth and beauty. What
majesty! what a presence! Her portrait is not rare in
Funen. Then there is Niels Juel, first as a
boy—hofjun-ker to Duke Frederic—in red jacket and silver buttons,
something like that worn at a Spanish bull-fight; again
repeated, surrounded by his victories, as Admiral, Knight
of the Elephant, &c., a table with the names of his
vessels, his captains, lieutenants, and officers, down to the
lowest grade. But of all the portraits of the Juel house,
there is one most charming, a lady of the last century,
missal in hand, coming out of church, the light of a
setting sun falling on her dress through the mullions of a
Gothic window, one of those effects of light so much
loved by some of the Dutch painters; the master
unknown.
My opinion is that to see these islands in their fullest
beauty we should have visited them in the month of
May, in the new-born luxuriance of early spring-time,
before the harvest is gathered in and the green fields
become stubble. In these northern climes the summer
is bright, but short. The months of May and June, though
the days are prolonged till midnight, and twilight is only
a cloud passing over the fair face of nature, yet are
but of tliirty days, and soon fly by. Could we extend
the year to fifteen months, one more summer quarter,
it would be a great convenience.
We had another excursion to make from Svendborg
before leaving—to the pretty wood of Christiansminde,
which we gained in a boat, and on—a pleasant walk—to
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