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CONCLUSION.
Palais Schimmelmann, April 16th, 1860.—My journal
is at an end, for to-morrow we leave Copenhagen. I have
faithfully transcribed what I have seen, what I have
visited, and my impressions thereon. My wanderings
through the kingdom of Denmark have to me been of
great interest. Still, recollect, I do not recommend this
tour to every one. The boy in the Blues—à moustache
naissante—the youth late escaped from college, with
leave of absence, and a life of hard military duty, or the
prospect of a country parish before his eyes—may far
better employ his time. Let him stop his two days at
Copenhagen, fish his way up Norway, shoot it down
Sweden, quaff the champagne of the “mère Cliquot”
at St. Petersburg—he’ll get it nowhere else—buy
turquoises of the Tartars at Moscow (they’ll all turn green
a week after), on to Constantinople, poke his nose
in a harem garden and get shot at, or say he did—ten
to one if he’s believed, if its true—and then on, on,
avoiding all the interstices of travel, seeing what is best
worth visiting in the world, sowing his wild oats, liberally,
not wantonly—anything better than a later crop—and
return to his own country and “do his duty in that
state of life to which it has pleased God to call him.”
But for those more advanced in life—who have been
everywhere and have done everything—who abominate
being whirled for pleasure across the fair face of Europe
by a locomotive—who detest German baths and their
wickednesses—who, feeling they really know and are
judges of what is grand and beautiful in this world, can
afford, without losing their dignity, to be pleased with
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