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MARIBO.
Chap. L.
with a cover—the king discovered some writing
underneath ; but release her he dared not during his mother’s
lifetime.
His Queen Charlotte Amelia pitied Eleanor’s unhappy
fate, and in return for a purse embroidered with beads
dared to brave her mother-in-law’s wrath, and ordered
her a new window and a pipe to her stove. When Queen
Sophia Amelia died Eleanor was released by order of
the king, who gave her a pension of 1500 thalers
yearly. She went, on leaving the prison, to her
granddaughter Miss Lindenov’s house on the canal, by the
Holmskirke, but only remained there three days, for
all the town came out to see her; later, she retired
to Maribo, where she resided till her death, passing the
greater part of her time in embroidering altar-cloths
for the church, with verses expressive of her gratitude
to her nephew the king and his family.
Eleanor had had her husband’s blood transfused into
her veins. This gave her the power of feeling what
happened to him ; when he died in 1644 she informed the
king long before news of the event had reached him.
Eleanor died in her seventy-first year. Her head
reposes upon a cushion stuffed with her own gray hair—
hair fallen off and carefully preserved during her long
and wearisome incarceration.
Few convent churches are externally worth looking
at, but here the interior vaulting is exquisite. The
image of St. Bridget, too, has lately turned up after a
retirement of three centuries ; but to make up for her
presence a youthful saint or bishop does duty as Martin
Luther. Among the abbesses and burghers whose
sepulchral slabs line the aisles, resting against the wall
stands erect a stone of great beauty, date 1565. on
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