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Knud's Church is the most magnificent I know. God knows whether St. Peter's in Rome would make upon me, now that I am older, the impression which this made upon me as a child!" "In St. Knud's Church lies the Mamsell with the cats," said the Kammerjunker. "The bishop's lady, you should say," returned Wilhelm. "Yes, both the bishop's lady and the cats," said the Kammerjunker, "look like dried fish!
"My Baron wanted to stay longer in Paris, though many of his noble friends lay already in the lime-pit with their heads off. He didn't want to go away, and sat half the day in the shop with Mamsell Manon, and said a Dane wasn't afraid of the French they'd not do anything to him! Things never turn out as one expects, and one evening my Baron was fetched away by a couple of long soldiers.
The Government of his Dominions he left cheerfully to his Mother, even when he came of age: "I am for learning War, as the one right trade; do with all things as you please, Mamma, only not with Mamsell, not with her!" Readers may figure this scene too, and shudder over it.
"Sister, do you repent of what you have done for these your sisters?" "No," said Mamsell Fredrika. "What have I to be glad for if not that it has been bestowed upon me to work for them? I once sacrificed my position as an authoress to them. I am glad that I knew what I sacrificed and yet did it." "Then you may stay and hear more," said the sister.
He was already deep in Polignac's ministry and the triumph of the July days; but he had the misfortune to confound Lafitte and Lafayette together. The son of the house only spoke of bull-calves. The lady at the table was a little mamsell from Holstebro, who sat beside him, dressed like a girl for Confirmation, in a black silk dress and long red shawl.
Fitz-Boodle," said she, "I am not accustomed to sit down in a place that smells of tobacco like an ale-house an ale-house inhabited by a SERPENT, sir! A SERPENT! do you understand me? who carries his poison into his brother's own house, and purshues his eenfamous designs before his brother's own children. Put on Miss Maria's bonnet this instant. Mamsell, ontondy-voo? Metty le bonny a mamsell.
And I shall take care, Mamsell, that you return to Switzerland to-morrow. I've no doubt you are a relation of Courvoisier oui! oui! courvoisier, vous comprenny and you shall certainly be sent back to your friends." With this speech, and with the children and their maid sobbing before her, my lady retired; but for once my sister-in-law was on my side, not liking the meddlement of the elder lady.
You, your sister, and the Mamsell, yes, you are a pretty clover-leaf! Yes, Thostrup, you cannot believe what pranks are hatched upon the Kammerjunker's estate! One must be prepared for it! It is said to be haunted, but if the dead will not take that trouble the living do. The Kammerjunker is in the plot with his women-folk.
I am sitting here at your desk, a crackling fire behind me, and Odin, rolled into a knot, by my side. * Mamsell received me in pink, with a black dancing-jacket; the children in the village ridicule her swaggering about her noble and rich relations.
'Franz! he said to me, 'be quick or I am lost! 'Where is the little Mamsell? I asked, 'and where is my confirmation suit? Then he grabbed me by the arm and dragged me through the streets till I was out of breath. 'She will come, he said half to himself, 'to-morrow the mistake will be cleared up, when I am out of the city.
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