Sixteen Months in the Danish Isles (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. Man bar jo dog et Slags Samvittighed ! Oehlenschlaoer. In dreaming about by day, and driving about by night, with pleasant conversation at all times, the weeks might have passed entirely unnoticed. I got acquainted with many people, some of whom were very agreeable. I heard plenty of good music, for there were those in the house who excelled in performing. And in this fashion three weeks ran in and ran out. It was needful I should go. I had received another kind invitation from a clergyman, only a few miles off, to pay him a visit. I had met him but twice, besides being once at his house, and again felt some difficulty about invading an already peaceful family with a presence that might possibly not add to its happiness. I had, indeed, freely accepted invitations before, until mayhap people thought I had no delicacy about it; and, if they thought so, I must own appearances were againstme. But I was not so hardened as might be supposed; I had many scruples, and took so long to make up my mind in this instance that the clergyman believed I did not wish or intend to avail myself of his invitation. I wished only too earnestly, but as Oehlenschlager says? " After all, one has a kind of conscience," and I hesitated seriously whether I should go or no. I was marvellously desirous to behold the existence and activities of a gifted and laborious country pastor, as I knew this one to be, ?to see his proceedings among his people, and his life in his own Christian home; but I did not know how far I might be justified in intruding, even though asked, into this house. At length I made up my mind that I might surely go for a few days at all events, which would make me better acquainted with things as they were, and that I could come away as soon I chose, if I thou...