Washington telegraph., 1851-06-04
A FORTUNATE KISS.

The following little story by Miss Bre-
mer is furnished to Sartain's Magazine.
For its truth and reality she says she will
| be responsible.
In the University of Upsala. in Swe-
den, lived a young student-a lonely
youth, with a great love for studies, but
without means for pursuing them. He
was poor, and without connections. Still
he studied. living in great poverty. bus
keeping cheerful heart, and trying not
20 look at the future. which looked so
grimly at him. His good humour and
good qualities made him beloved by his
young comrades. Once he was stand.
ing with some of them in the great
squares of Upsala, prating away an
hour Of leisure, when the attention of the
young men became arrested by very
young and elegant lazy. who at. the side
Of an elderly one. walked slowly over
the place. 1t was the daughter Of the
Governor OF Upland, living i'll the city,
and the lady with her was her governess,
She was generally known for her beauty
and for her goodness and gentleness of
character. and was looked upon with
great admiration by the students. As
at her, as she passed on like graceful
vision ore Of them exclaimed.
"Wsll, it would be worth something to
have Kiss from such mouth
Inc poo young student, the hero Of
our story WIN was looking intently on
shat pure and angelic face, exclaimed, az
if by inspiration, "Well. think could
have it,
What" cried his riends in chorus.
"are you crazy? Do you know herr" etc.
mo, at all. he answered: "but think
she would kiss me. just novif I asked
her."
"What. in this place, before all our
eyes?"
I'm ;his place, before your eyes,
"Freely?"
Freely"
"Wel. if she will give you kiss
in that manner. l will give you thou.
sand dollars exclaimed one of the party.
"And r. "And I!' cried three or
four others, for it so happened that sever
al rich young men were in the group, and
bets ran high on so improbable an event,
and the challenge was made and re-
ceived i'll less time than we take to re.
late it.
Our hero--(my authority tells not
whether he was handsome or plain; I
have my peculiar reasons for believing
that he was rather plain, but singularly
good-looking at the same time)-our he.
70 Immediately walked off to meet the
young lady. He bowed to her, and said,
my lady. (nsim troleen,) my fortune is in
Sl.n Is,n TOD ~,
tonishment, but arrested her steps, He
proceeded to state his name and condi.
ton, his aspiration, and related simply
and truly what had just passed between
him and his companions. The young
lady listened altentively, and when he
ceased TO speak, she said. blushing, but
wi tn great sweetness: "If by so little a
thing so much good can be effected, il
would be foolish i'll me TO refuse your re-
quest" she kissed the young man
publicly in the open square.
Next day the young student was sent
for by the Governor. lie wanted to SEQ
the man who had dared to ask kiss of
his daughter i'll that way, and whom she
had consented to kiss SO. He received
him with a severe and scru,nizing brow,
but after an hours conversation, was SO
pleased with him that he offered him to
due at his table during his studies in Up
sala.
Our young friend now pursued his
stndies in q manner which soon made him
regarded as the most promising scholar at
the University. Three years were not pass
ed after the day of the first kiss, when the
young man was allowed to give a second
one to the daughter Of the Governor, ~
to his inteuded bride.
He became, later, one Of the greatest
scholars in Sweden. as much respected
for his learning as for his character. His
works will endure forever among the
works of sciencei and from his happy
union sprung family well known in
Sweden in the preseut day, and whose
wealth of fortune and high position in
society as regarded as small things COM
pared with its wealth of goodness and
| love.