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A few years later the old historian was called upon to publish the
little book on Gulland, with its short biography prefixed, as a memorial
to his only son, fallen at Sankelmark, and again, a few years later, to
edit Frederik Nutzhorn's translation of Apuleius in memory of his son's
friend, his elder daughter's fiance. During the preparation of these two
little books, our relations became more intimate, and our friendship
continued unbroken until in the month of February, 1872, a remark in one
of my defensive articles caused him to take up his pen against me. My
remark was to the effect that there were men of the same opinions as
myself even among the priests of the established church. Caspar Paludan-
Mueller declared it my public duty to mention of whom I was thinking at
the time, since such a traitor was not to be tolerated in the lap of the
Church. As I very naturally did not wish to play the part of informer, I
incurred, by my silence, the suspicion of having spoken without
foundation. The Danish man whom I had in my thoughts, and who had
confided his opinions to me, was still alive at the time. This was the
late Dean Ussing, at one time priest at Mariager, a man of an
extraordinarily refined and amiable disposition, secretly a convinced
adherent of Ernest Renan. A Norwegian priest, who holds the same
opinions, is still living.
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