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Eleanora Ulfeld.
they had been paired off for a country dance—but that is an anachronism , for country dances were not j'et known ,- —but corantos or brawls will clo as well , and many a brawl the boys of that family danced before the world had done with them . Every one knows the history of a large family of noble birthtliere are two or three wild ones ancl two or three steady ones
, some rise at home , and some abroad , —one gets killed at this siege , another in that battle , —one probably becomes rich , another a Papist . One of the youngest of this family ivas Corfitz , a Kammerjlinker , or page of his majesty . Dame Christina had by this time been made a countess , ancl of course , German and Danish fashionall her children shared the title .
, The little countess Eleanor was then a sweet child of seven , whom her parents thought proper to betroth to young Corfitz , a handsome , wilful boy of twelve . A brother page of his had had the assurance to make love to the little maiden , who repulsed him with due dignity , having already bestowed her small virgin heart ( if such a heart as hers ever could be small ) on . Corfitz .
Hence jealousies , quarrels , and enmity in clue form between the rivals , an enmity at ivhich grown men smiled ancl laches laughed , but which found a fitting soil in the bosom of the rejected suitor , and expanded in after years into a perfect upas-tree of hatred . In the mean time it was thought proper that the young bridegroom should travel . He ivent to Paris , where his tutor left
him in the lurch ; he went to Germany , and distinguished himself in battle . One of his brothers had already been made a count of the empire for his services , ancl the younger one distinguished himself so much that he at last returned to Denmark armed with such letters of recommendation to the king that Christiern himself reconciled him to his father . Why , what
had he clone ? It is not so easy to tell ivhen one has only a friendly biographer to rely on . What if there had been , a slight mistake as to which was the nominative case in that simple phrase , " The tutor left Corfitz . " Thus much we know , he was a brave , daring , headstrong youth , full of talent and wilfulness , and it ivas not very difficult for such a one to get into disgrace , or to get out of it .
His little bride had been holding a steadier course , though perhaps as brave a one . She had grown from childhood to girlhood , and was apparently as precocious in person as in mind , for at twelve years of age ( Avhen most little girls are mere breadand-butter misses—creatures that you would take on your knee , instead of kneeling to them , ancl offer them hearts of gingerbread instead of your own)—a prince of the house of Saxony wooed her for his bride . Christiern IV . was naturally pleased at
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Eleanora Ulfeld.
they had been paired off for a country dance—but that is an anachronism , for country dances were not j'et known ,- —but corantos or brawls will clo as well , and many a brawl the boys of that family danced before the world had done with them . Every one knows the history of a large family of noble birthtliere are two or three wild ones ancl two or three steady ones
, some rise at home , and some abroad , —one gets killed at this siege , another in that battle , —one probably becomes rich , another a Papist . One of the youngest of this family ivas Corfitz , a Kammerjlinker , or page of his majesty . Dame Christina had by this time been made a countess , ancl of course , German and Danish fashionall her children shared the title .
, The little countess Eleanor was then a sweet child of seven , whom her parents thought proper to betroth to young Corfitz , a handsome , wilful boy of twelve . A brother page of his had had the assurance to make love to the little maiden , who repulsed him with due dignity , having already bestowed her small virgin heart ( if such a heart as hers ever could be small ) on . Corfitz .
Hence jealousies , quarrels , and enmity in clue form between the rivals , an enmity at ivhich grown men smiled ancl laches laughed , but which found a fitting soil in the bosom of the rejected suitor , and expanded in after years into a perfect upas-tree of hatred . In the mean time it was thought proper that the young bridegroom should travel . He ivent to Paris , where his tutor left
him in the lurch ; he went to Germany , and distinguished himself in battle . One of his brothers had already been made a count of the empire for his services , ancl the younger one distinguished himself so much that he at last returned to Denmark armed with such letters of recommendation to the king that Christiern himself reconciled him to his father . Why , what
had he clone ? It is not so easy to tell ivhen one has only a friendly biographer to rely on . What if there had been , a slight mistake as to which was the nominative case in that simple phrase , " The tutor left Corfitz . " Thus much we know , he was a brave , daring , headstrong youth , full of talent and wilfulness , and it ivas not very difficult for such a one to get into disgrace , or to get out of it .
His little bride had been holding a steadier course , though perhaps as brave a one . She had grown from childhood to girlhood , and was apparently as precocious in person as in mind , for at twelve years of age ( Avhen most little girls are mere breadand-butter misses—creatures that you would take on your knee , instead of kneeling to them , ancl offer them hearts of gingerbread instead of your own)—a prince of the house of Saxony wooed her for his bride . Christiern IV . was naturally pleased at