IN THE STATE OF DENMARK 



147 



Wliat the appearance of Herr L. meant when, a 

 moment or two later, he stood in our doorway, was 

 a matter fraught at first with all possible anxiety and 

 uncertainty. There was, however, a certain relief in 

 hearing that the water had descended upon Madame's 

 head. Tlie shock to her 

 constitution was prob- 

 ably serious, and of a 

 nature hitherto unex- 

 perienced, but it could 

 not be charged for in 

 the bill. 



IX 



Out of a bitter wind 

 striped with slanting 

 sliowers, we sped into 

 the Frue Kirche, dis- 

 hevelled from half an 

 hour's search for it in 

 the muddy byways of 

 Copenhagen, acidulated 

 by the inadequacy of 

 our summer Sunday 

 clothes to a Danish 

 September. The swing 

 door banged behind us, 

 and shut out the gusty 

 street ; instantly the 

 far-off figure of Thor- 



waldsen's Christ enchained the eye in the dusky 

 niche above the altar candles, leaning in its white 

 trance of. benediction. On pedestals at the sides of 

 the church stood the companion figures of the twelve 

 apostles, wrapped in a separate and individual 

 exaltation. Apart from the embodied Christianity 



A MATTER FRAUGHT WITH ANXIETY 

 AND UNCERTAINTY." 



