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Chap. LV.
NYSØ—GISSELFELD.
375
dence of the Baroness Stampe, whom we luckily find
at home.
Nysø possesses another interest apart from its ancient
buildings and its antique old-fashioned gardens; for
in this manor-house Thorvaldsen, the honoured of kings
and peasants, passed the last summers of his long and
well-spent life. He had almost ceased to work, but
the Baroness Stampe encouraged him to recommence
his labours ; and here, in the garden of clipped hedges,
in a small kiosk, he held his studio, which is preserved
as sacred, and where still exist many of his original
bas-reliefs in plaster.
In the chateau hangs an admirable portrait of the
great sculptor by his friend Horace Vernet—painted in
his blouse; far superior to the Christmas-tree of
Frederiksborg.
When we again returned to the inn, no chance of
dinner; the pudding still boiling, so we waited till
eight, and we waited till nine, and I had intentions
of going dinnerless to bed; when, after the
two-and-fortieth “ strax,” it did come, and very good it was;
only we all had the nightmare, and I dreamt of the
giant-girl of Nestved, who sat on my chest with a
pudding, and throttled me, pouring sand through the
hole in her apron. Nearly senseless, I awoke in an
awful fright, and found myself almost buried alive under
a hecatomb of duvet.
GISSELFELD.
October 5th.—Up betimes, and off early, as old Pepys
would say, for we have a long day’s sight-seeing before
us—a day’s sight-seeing which would have satisfied the
worthy old gentleman himself. Very pretty is the road
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