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Eleanora Ulfeld.
feelings of a man who foresees that his nose is about to be pulled , without the possibility of either preventing the catastrophe , or avenging the insult . Instead of her majesty and a few chosen councillors , thc luckless ambassador finds a crowded court , amid whicli he soon spies Corfitz Ulfeld looking as confident and lordly as if there
were no thought of banishing him from the sunshine of the palace . With some difficulty the wary diplomatist is brought to state his accusation against his contumacious countryman . Christina listens , waves her hand , all exit is barred , —and the ambassador compelled to listen to a lengthy written defence of Ulfeld , contrary to aU the stipulations he had made , and
Christina had guaranteed . Would that the ambassador bad written his autobiography _ Did he ever put faith in woman again ? It is said that with his hand on his sword he forced his way from that perfidious court . But Christinatoowas about to ' flit / and her successor had
, , no such friendship for Ulfeld as to risk a war in his behalf . The count and his family went to Holland and soon experienced that most common of all wants—a want of money . You remember that Charles II . had been in the same miserable predicament .
He was now seated on the tin-one , and able , one would think , to pay his debts . For some reason or other it was thought best that the Countess Eleanor should proceed to England instead of her husband , and there delicately remind his majesty of former obligations . She did so . You have no great opinion of Charles IL , have you ? You look on him as a man without
conscience , morals , or honour ? Of course you do . Who but Dr . Pusey does not ? But you have got to learn all he was capable of . A noble and virtuous woman , a near relation of his own , comes to him in her hour of need . She has left a husband and ten children in exile , her husband has just been condemned to death , only Denmark cannot get at him , and her children
are banished for ever from their native land . This is in 1663 . She is not quite in her prime of beauty , but her spotless character has been tried , and a right-minded man would have honored her more now than when , in all the freshness of youthful loveliness , she was the delight of the court of Denmark . She comes and meekly whispers to the merry monarch" We
, were kind to you in former days , will you not remember it and do us justice noAV ? " Charles denied the debt . The mean-spirited king , the dishonest man ! Why , he ought rather to have invented one , or offered a free gift , worthy of the suppliant . Eleanor could not afford to give up all hopes of justice . She
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Eleanora Ulfeld.
feelings of a man who foresees that his nose is about to be pulled , without the possibility of either preventing the catastrophe , or avenging the insult . Instead of her majesty and a few chosen councillors , thc luckless ambassador finds a crowded court , amid whicli he soon spies Corfitz Ulfeld looking as confident and lordly as if there
were no thought of banishing him from the sunshine of the palace . With some difficulty the wary diplomatist is brought to state his accusation against his contumacious countryman . Christina listens , waves her hand , all exit is barred , —and the ambassador compelled to listen to a lengthy written defence of Ulfeld , contrary to aU the stipulations he had made , and
Christina had guaranteed . Would that the ambassador bad written his autobiography _ Did he ever put faith in woman again ? It is said that with his hand on his sword he forced his way from that perfidious court . But Christinatoowas about to ' flit / and her successor had
, , no such friendship for Ulfeld as to risk a war in his behalf . The count and his family went to Holland and soon experienced that most common of all wants—a want of money . You remember that Charles II . had been in the same miserable predicament .
He was now seated on the tin-one , and able , one would think , to pay his debts . For some reason or other it was thought best that the Countess Eleanor should proceed to England instead of her husband , and there delicately remind his majesty of former obligations . She did so . You have no great opinion of Charles IL , have you ? You look on him as a man without
conscience , morals , or honour ? Of course you do . Who but Dr . Pusey does not ? But you have got to learn all he was capable of . A noble and virtuous woman , a near relation of his own , comes to him in her hour of need . She has left a husband and ten children in exile , her husband has just been condemned to death , only Denmark cannot get at him , and her children
are banished for ever from their native land . This is in 1663 . She is not quite in her prime of beauty , but her spotless character has been tried , and a right-minded man would have honored her more now than when , in all the freshness of youthful loveliness , she was the delight of the court of Denmark . She comes and meekly whispers to the merry monarch" We
, were kind to you in former days , will you not remember it and do us justice noAV ? " Charles denied the debt . The mean-spirited king , the dishonest man ! Why , he ought rather to have invented one , or offered a free gift , worthy of the suppliant . Eleanor could not afford to give up all hopes of justice . She