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Chap. LVI. THE QUEEN OF DANISH CONVENTS.
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anything papistical about them, nothing at all:
quarterings, too, are now no longer required; gentle birth alone
is sufficient. The Hereditary Princess Caroline of
Denmark is Abbess of the Institution. A Danish
gentleman, who wishes his daughter to be entered upon the
list of the ladies, intimates his desire to Count Moltke,
after the baptism of the infant. On paying two thousand
rix-dollars the name of his child is inscribed upon
the books of the establishment, and from that day
she receives a certain annual sum, the interest of the
money:, after that it becomes an affair of time. As
the older ladies die off, the younger ones mount up. Of
the Dames de Vallø, whom we see dancing and waltzing
about the world in white tarletan, with grand cordon
and badge of the order, most of them receive from
about sixty to seventy pounds; then later, as they get
old and high on the list, from one hundred and twenty
to one hundred and thirty pounds yearly. The prioress
receives an income of about six hundred pounds
English. If any member dies or marries, she forfeits
her entrance-money. The ten sisters highest on the
list have apartments assigned to them in the convent:
they have, of course, their own private room; but the
drawing-rooms are lighted up of an evening, and they
dine together, enjoy their own parson, own doctor, own
equipages; a beautiful garden, with greenhouses and
a deer-park;—live among their own people. Each
lady of the first class is obliged to undertake the
education of some orphan child at her own expense.
On the whole it is a very happy institution, and the old
ladies pass the autumn of their lives in good fellowship
and social comfort. The ladies of Vallø, too, hold high
rank in the tables of precedence of women, coming after
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