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The Floral King. 107
most famous and learned men of the period, his
patronage by the king of France, and many wondrous
things he had seen in his foreign travels, all which
were of the greatest contrast to the life and sur-
roundings in the rural vicarage by Mockeln’s strand.
And he spoke of his hopes for the future, and of his
love in distant Dalcarlia, and which made him tremble
for fear the rumour which had reached him and
hastened his homeward return should prove true.
His stay at the present time was again therefore but
brief, and he journeyed post haste to Fahlun where
he found that, though the warning had been timely,
yet his loved one had proved true to him, and that
she with indignation had discarded the would-be
suitor, Linnzus’s clerical friend Brovallius, who
would have played false with him, and who had now
left and become professor at the University of Abo
in Finland.
The engagement of the young ‘couple was now
publicly announced, and great and universal was the
joy in the house of Doctor Morezeus.
However, Linnzus was compelled soon to tear
himself away, and repair to Stockholm in quest of
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