Year: 1859


you oil the information regarding myself,
which you have q right to demand


There was something so good in Yngye's
expression, his manners were so pleasing,
and at the same time so easy and cordial,
that sooner or later he won upon all with
whom he came in contact.


Even the Director could not resist their
influence, and bowed bis head as silent
assent to the young mans entreaty. When,
therefore, Yngve mentioned bis approach
ing journey, aud requested that an oppor-
tunily for this much-desired interview might
be granted on an early day, the Director re-
piled Tomorrow evening at six o'clock


When Yngve had taken his departure,
the Director broke out violently against bis
daughter, npbraiding her severely for not
having prepared him for Yngve's offer.


Don't tell me, said he, that you were
not prepared for it yourself An old maid
like you knows only too well when q man
means to make her an offer, and II is in
that case her duty TO prepare her father
beforehand. Besides, you know that am
no friend to surprises


To Aunt Nella the Director said


i do not really need your money at this
time, sisteT-in-luw, but you ought not to let
this scrip lie carelessly among all sorts Of
loose papers; it will be best for me to take
charge of it for you, and will take care
that you have your interest regularly. l
can place it to better account than you can.
And if / should have occasion to borrow
yonr money, You know that you have good
security for il with me-


1T is the savings Of forty years, brother
in-law' said Aunt Nella, and began to cry,
affected at the thoughts of herself


Yes, which you were able to make in
my family for the most part said the Di
rector, aud whilst you there lived free of
cost, and had no need to spend anything,
But in any cuse it is very beautiful, very
beautiful Of you, sister-in-aw, and esteem
you very much for your prudence aud cir
cumspecIion, and for the proof of friend
ship which you have given me to-day. |
shall not forget it shall regard all
yours as if it were my own, and take just
the same care of it


Ard so saying, the Director laid Aunt
Nela's scrip in his pocket-book, aud after
that pressed and shook her hand, as he
said haifj0kingly:


Only think of little creature like you
being worth ten thousand rix-dolIars =
Who could have thought it p


Aunt Nella curtseyed and smiled, and
was happy in the commendatiou and the
, iriendl n, SIS of her brolher-n-law. On her
way down to Ler own room, however, it
seemed as if the portfolio had become con-
In, aOnlI oh u,,iA 10 oar
tain uneasy feeling in this consciousness |;
but then, again, she thought how her and
her brotber.inlaw' interests would hence
forth become one, both in the great law
suit aud ont of il; and in this way Aunt
Nella seemed to be magnanimously sacrl-
ficing herself like real heroine OF romance
land Aunt Nella was know-not wheth-
er have mentioned it before or not-ln
secret great novel-reader); and she fore
saw that an hour would come in the course
of the great lawsuit, when her noble con-
duet would be made known, and openly ac-
knowledged, because that was the way in
which things happened in the histories OF
heroines of romance


In the mean time she enjoyed the pleasure
of being regarded by her brother'in-law,
after this evening, with quite other eyes
than formerly; he considered her evidently
no longer a single cypher, but four cyphers
with q one standing befor them.


MOMENT.


In our northern folk-songs there com
monty occurs between the minor key of the
beginning aud the end, an interval of few
bars in the major key which, in the most
delicious munner, soothe the ear and touch
the feelings, in which the soul seems to cast
bright glance rich in promise, into fu-
ture afflnant in spring aud love. The eve
ming on which Yngve, according to the ap-
pontmnt of the Director again found him
self at Kullen, resembled sHch major key
ir the life OF the lovers.


The Director, who seemed to have taken
his resolution with regard to Yngve, re-
ceived him with politeness and, without
any repulsive coldness, allowed him TO ex-
plain his prospects, and then replied that
he wished to become better acquainted with
him; wished him more important position
in society, as well as more certain prospects
of an independent income before he could
consent to his marriage with Hertha. Her
tha, it was true, possessed some property
from her mother, but not as much as peo-
pie generally believed; and not sufficient OF
itself for the maintenance Of family. II
was the Directors duty, therefore, as her
father and guardian, to watch over her tu
| ture prospects. The future alone could de
eide the issue Of Yngve's wishes with re
gard to Hertha, but he might openly plead
bis own cause with her, and III the NEAR
time would be welcome to the house of Her
ths's father.


All this was reasonable enough. aud wal
more than Yngve expected after the scen'
Of the preceding evening. He therefore
thanked the Director cordially, and ex
pressed his hope that before long he nigh
be able to satisfy his reasonable demands
and offer to Hertha position in life secure
from pecuniary difficulties, Yngve also
eontrVed to create an interest in the mno
of the Director for the undertaking III which
he was interested, and ih which his future
prospects were involved He produced al
together so agreeable an impression upoI
the Director, that he received from him al
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