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THE SKJUTS-BOY. 141
advantages travelling offers, and the value and authority which
£s .procured to us by the custom of appearing in society with the
air, which only ladies of old families Cal# give to themselves.
This change in your sentiments and conversation gives me more
pleasure than :[ am able to express. But under all circumstances
we must bave a husband for Amelia, for I do not wish that this
journey should be made for naught."
"As fo that you need not fear my interference, for, if I ara
hOt greatly mistaken there is still a secol#d ol#e here."
"You mean ]3orgenstierna ? That perhaps would hOt be so
bad either. I think that I now remember that the Borgenstiernas,
in the year 1719 or 1720, sat in the House of Lords; yes, I ara
sure of if. X heard an acquaintance relate al3o, that one of them,
who was the page of King Gustavus the Third, had raised the
family. The rest of the rabble, however, were degraded to the
rank of common people, and bave perfectly vanished. If is said
that in the neighbourhood of Swarteborg there was an estate,
which was once owned by one of thc family, a Major ]3orgen-
stieraa; but that happened long ago, dear wifc, and the best
for us will be–you understand me–to let no one know anything
about the foEte of the çamily, which, confidentially speaking, is
said not to huve been of the highest ortier."
##adame de :Dressen cared as little for speaking further on the
subject as did ber husband, as each of them had their little secret
concerning if, which they intended fo keep #o themselves; the
lieutenant-colonel being ashamed of his behaviour ai that time;
and besides, he was perfectly convinced that his new acquaint-
ance could not be the skjuts-boy of Swarteborg, although he
supposed almost fo a Cert.ainty that he must be a relation to
him# bl:adame de Dressen, because she bclieved that her husband,
if the matter should ever become known, would never give his
consent to such a marriagc, as soon as he found out that his son-
in-law had in former rimes been a common peasant boy.
"But however thaç may be," replied Madame de Dressen, "an
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