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understand my position exactly, and know well that
I am under the ban of most of the professors as
a seducer of youth, and that the fathers and
mothers fear me like the Evil One himself.
Moreover, I have made personal enemies here,
and have contracted debts under circumstances
which set my character in a dubious light. Here
Popoffsky’s sister-in-law and her husband live,
and both of these, who have an influential
position in society, are able to stir up powerful
enemies against me. I have also here relations
who ignore me, and friends who have left me
to become my enemies. In a word, it is the
worst place I could have chosen for a quiet
residence; it is hell, but a hell contrived with
masterly logic and divine ingenuity. Here I must
drain the cup of humiliation, and reconcile the
youth of Lund with the alienated powers. By
a picturesque accident, I buy myself a mantle
with cape and cowl, of a flea-brown colour, like
a Franciscan’s. Thus, after a six years’
banishment, I return to Sweden in a penitent’s
costume.
About the year 1885 there was formed in Lund
a Students’ Association called “The Old Boys,”
whose literary, scientific, and social programme
was best expressed by the word “Radicalism.”
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