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Article ELEANORA ULFELD. ← Page 7 of 13 →
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Eleanora Ulfeld.
long when once a hostile power had been called in as mediator between them . Ulfeld seems undoubtedly to have entered into plots against the king . He went to Sweden , and was received with the most marked distinction by the eccentric daughter of the heroic Gustavus . Christina openly drove in the same carriage with himand when accusations against him were presented
, to her by the Danish ambassador , she herself undertook his defence . Fraiilein Eleanora * was at this time lodging in the palace at Stockholm . She had remained in Denmark for some time after her husband had gone to Sweden , but finding her personal safety menaced , she was obliged to disguise herself in male apparel , ami in this manner escaped to Sweden ,
where Christina , whether as much delighted at her arrival as she appeared to be , or not , thought proper to receive her with every mark of attention . At last , the ambassador , who seems to have been a man of great firmness , required the queen to dismiss Ulfeld from her court . She required him publicly to accuse Ulfeld , promising that the latter should not be permitted to answer , ivhich it seems the ambassador thought would be inconsistent with his sovereign ' s dignity , and after promising all that the ambassador wished , she ordered her
carriage , and asked Count Ulfeld to take a drive with her . No sooner did the Danish ambassador hear of this mark of the queen ' s favour to Ulfeld , which certainly looked very little as if she really intended to dismiss him from her presence the following day , than he flew to her ancl utterly refused to appear at the audience which she had appointed
for the morroAV . Christina appears to haA e been possessed Avith a determination to put a public slight on her good brother of Denmark , and AAithout caring at ivhat price she purchased that pleasru'e . She therefore spared neither promises nor assurances to prevail on the ambassador to come to her court the next clay . Poor man ! Avhat could he do ? You
cannot doubt the word of a lady or a queen , —at any rate you cannot act as if you did;—still , a sturdy Northman is not exactly the person you can persuade to disbelieve his OAVU senses . He was superstitious enough to believe in facts , and the fact immediately before his rnincl was , that her Scandinavian majesty had been seen parading through the city in animated converse with
a man ivhom she protested she was about to dismiss from her presence . With a heavy heart the ambassador went home ; with a heavy heart he proceeded to court the next morning , " as an ox goeth to the slaughter , " and with much of the inward
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Eleanora Ulfeld.
long when once a hostile power had been called in as mediator between them . Ulfeld seems undoubtedly to have entered into plots against the king . He went to Sweden , and was received with the most marked distinction by the eccentric daughter of the heroic Gustavus . Christina openly drove in the same carriage with himand when accusations against him were presented
, to her by the Danish ambassador , she herself undertook his defence . Fraiilein Eleanora * was at this time lodging in the palace at Stockholm . She had remained in Denmark for some time after her husband had gone to Sweden , but finding her personal safety menaced , she was obliged to disguise herself in male apparel , ami in this manner escaped to Sweden ,
where Christina , whether as much delighted at her arrival as she appeared to be , or not , thought proper to receive her with every mark of attention . At last , the ambassador , who seems to have been a man of great firmness , required the queen to dismiss Ulfeld from her court . She required him publicly to accuse Ulfeld , promising that the latter should not be permitted to answer , ivhich it seems the ambassador thought would be inconsistent with his sovereign ' s dignity , and after promising all that the ambassador wished , she ordered her
carriage , and asked Count Ulfeld to take a drive with her . No sooner did the Danish ambassador hear of this mark of the queen ' s favour to Ulfeld , which certainly looked very little as if she really intended to dismiss him from her presence the following day , than he flew to her ancl utterly refused to appear at the audience which she had appointed
for the morroAV . Christina appears to haA e been possessed Avith a determination to put a public slight on her good brother of Denmark , and AAithout caring at ivhat price she purchased that pleasru'e . She therefore spared neither promises nor assurances to prevail on the ambassador to come to her court the next clay . Poor man ! Avhat could he do ? You
cannot doubt the word of a lady or a queen , —at any rate you cannot act as if you did;—still , a sturdy Northman is not exactly the person you can persuade to disbelieve his OAVU senses . He was superstitious enough to believe in facts , and the fact immediately before his rnincl was , that her Scandinavian majesty had been seen parading through the city in animated converse with
a man ivhom she protested she was about to dismiss from her presence . With a heavy heart the ambassador went home ; with a heavy heart he proceeded to court the next morning , " as an ox goeth to the slaughter , " and with much of the inward