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WEDELLSBORG.
Chap. XLIX.
falling-sickness”—epileptic fits—was suddenly attacked
towards early dawn, causing great consternation in our
quiet kro, otherwise we should have slept like princes,
for our linen was of the finest texture, white as the driven
snow, smelling strong of iris and lavender; our beds were
covered with couvrepieds of old embroidered silks—
wreaths of jasmine on a sea-green ground—drawn in our
honour from the hidden recesses of an ancient carved
wardrobe some three centuries old or upwards.
WEDELLSBORG.
August 11 th.—The steamer would wait for us one
small half-hour, did we wish it; but the mail arrives in
time, and we are ready on board. We disembark at
Assens, and wander about the town while horses are
preparing. Nothing remarkable in Assens ; she is busy
restoring her fine old church, and does it well. A little
wool trade too she possesses of her own: beyond this ask
nothing—one small Danish town is own twin sister to
another.
We drive on to Wedellsborg—Grefskab, or county,
of Count Wedell—another of those Danish paradises
by the water-side, imbedded in woods. The house
is of no architectural pretensions, but most comfortable
to live in. Among the numerous portraits is one of
Christina Munk, with her three eldest daughters *—
small girls. First Anna, betrothed to Count Rantzau,
who was drowned before his marriage in the moat of
* Elizabeth Augusta, wife of Hans Lindenov— a fourth daughter of
Christina Munk—was the ancestress of the Wedell family, and mother of
the had Baroness of the “ windy waste ” near Aalborg. She gambled
away all her possessions, and, after great poverty, lived on a small
pension given by Christian V.
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