The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1851-04-05
From Sartam's .NagaSine.
NORTHERN LOVES AND LEGENDS,
BY FREDERICA BREMER

NY vi evening, group themselves round
the sun and are lighted up by it, and you
have thought sometimes: off this should
be represented in painting, people would
say, it is unnatural, it is not true !" So
even is human life. We often find
events, looking, when related Or desert
bed in books, even as unnatural, and vet
are perfectly true to reality, to nature,
though not to be every day nature. For
example, if any one should tell you that,
once first kiss was given by young
modest lady, publicly, and in a public
square to young man that she saw for
the first time; certainly all young ladies,
and old ladies, and young gentlemen
and old gentlemen, would with one
voice call out, at is not true; it is i'm
possible" Well, | entreat your ,atten-
ton to the following little story, for
whose truth and reality | will be re-
sponsible:
In the University of Upsala, in Swe-
den, lived a young student-a lonely
youth, with great love for studies, but
without means of pursuing them. Still
he studied on, living in great poverty,
but keeping up cheerful heart, and try
ing not to look at the future, which look
ed so grimly at him. His good humor
and good qualities made him beloved by
his young comrades. Once he was
standing with some of them in the great
square Of Upsala, pratting away an hour
OF leisure, when the attention of the
young men became arrested by very
young and elegant lady, who, at the side
of an elderly one, walked slowly over
the place. 1t was the daughter ofthe
Governor Of Upland, residing in the
city, and the lady with her was her gov
erness. She was generally known for
her beauty, and for her goodness and
gentleness of character, and was looked
upon with great admiration by the stu.
dents. As the young men now stood ST.
lently gazing at her, one of them ex-
claimed:
"Well, it would be worth something
to have kiss from such mouth!
The pooryoung student, the hero of
our story, who was looking intently at
that pure and angelic face, exclaimed,
as if by inspiration
"Well, think could have it,"
"W hat !" cried his friends in chorus,
care you crazy! Do you know her %
etc.
"Not at all,' he answesed; "but |
think she would kiss me, just now, if
asked her."
"What in this place before all our
eyes %
"!n this place before your eyes"
"Freely Z"
"Freely."
"Well, if she will give you kiss in
that manner, | will give you thousand
dollars % exclaimed one of the party.
"And land y" exclaimed three or
four others, for it so happened that sever
al rich young men We're in the group,
and bets ran high on SO improbable an
event, and the challenge was made and
received in less time than we take to
relate it.
Our hero-my authority tells not
whether he was handsome or plain; |
have my peculiar reasons for believing
that he was rather plain, but singularly
good looking at the same time-our he
70 immediately walked of to meet the
young lady. He bowed to her and said,
"Ny lady, lmin frolin) my fortune is
in your hand"
She looked at him in astonishment; but
arrested her steps. He proceeded to
state his name and condition, his aspi-
rations, and related simply and truly
what had just passed between him and
his companions. The young lady list
ened attentively, and when he had ceas-
ed to speak, she said, blushing, but with
great sweetness,
off by SO little thing so much good
could be effected, it would be very fool
ish in me to refuse your request
she kissed the young man publicly in
the open square.
Next day the young student was sent
for by the Governor. He wanted to
see the man who dared to ask kiss of
his daughter in that way, and whom she
had consented to kiss so. He rece wed
him with severe and scrutinizing brow,
but, after an hours conversation, was so
pleased with him that he offered him to
dine at his table during the course of his
studies in Upsala.
Our young friend now pursued his stu
dies in manner which soon made him
regarded as the most promising scholar
at the University. Three years were
not passed after the day of the first kiss,
when the young man was allowed to
give a second one to the lovely daughter
of the Governor, as to his betrothed
bride.
He became, later, one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, as much respected
for his learning as his character. His