Chapter 31

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​​​‌‌‌‌​​‌​‌​​​‌⁠On our arrival in Denmark, we found the king and queen of that country elevated in two arm-chairs on a kitchen-table, holding a Court. The whole of the Danish nobility were in attendance; consisting of a noble boy in the wash-leather boots of a gigantic ancestor, a venerable Peer with a dirty face who seemed to have risen from the people late in life, and the Danish chivalry with a comb in its hai