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youth—for he was but eight-and-twenty—he conducted
the defence of the city, and led the dangerous but
important sallies, with such masterful insight and such mature
perfection of plan that the cause could hardly have been in
better hands with any one else among the men who
surrounded Frederik the Third.
No wonder, therefore, that his name outshone all others,
and that the poetasters, in their versified accounts of the
fighting, addressed him as “thou vict’ry-crowned
Gyldenlöv’, thou Denmark’s saviour brave!” or greeted him:
“Hail, hail, thou Northern Mars, thou Danish David
bold!” and wished that his life might be as a cornucopia,
yea, even as a horn of plenty, full and running over with
praise and glory, with health, fortune, and happiness. No
wonder that many a quiet family vespers ended with the
prayer that God would preserve Mr. Ulrik Christian, and
some pious souls added a petition that his foot might be led
from the slippery highways of sin, and his heart be turned
from all that was evil, to seek the shining diadem of virtue
and truth, and that he, who had in such full measure won
the honor of this world, might also participate in the only
true and everlasting glory.
Marie Grubbe’s thoughts were much engrossed by this
kinsman of her aunt. As it happened, she had never met
him either at Mistress Rigitze’s or in society, and all she
had seen of him was a glimpse in the dusk when Lucie had
pointed him out in the street.
All were speaking of him. Nearly every day some fresh
story of his valor was noised abroad. She had heard and
read that he was a hero, and the murmur of enthusiasm that
went through the crowds in the streets, as he rode past, had
given her an unforgettable thrill.
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