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#aE SKJUTS-#OY. 145
in life; fo long for w#rmth, and yet feel th#ç Che hear# is frozen
by #n icy bre##h. The power of m# is much pr#sed, buç #
migh#y # ig m#y b% m# is never #gisfied wigh #mse# #lone.
The longing #o love, #nd #o be loved by a# objec# which c#res
for #, #nd for which he c#res, #ves powerf#y #d #den#ly
### h#, #nd perh#ps #he more so, # he s#rives #o f#nish
ghe e#dence #h## he h# no need of #he holy sentiments of na##e
#o be happy.
Borgenstierna felt deeply #d pa#f#ly that he w# lac#g
much. But for seve#l years a sic#y misunthropy hud entered
into his very soul, fo m#ter which w# no easy t#k for #m.
#either could he convince himself that a new and happy con-
nexion would make lffe appear # a #ffcmnt #ght #o #.
Ivar often measured # Ms mind #he long pefiod wMch had
ensued be#ween now and then, and often lingered on #he rime
when he, as a skjuts-boy, had earned a few farthings, so that Ms
father wo#d be enabled #o puy his taxes; when, # rameur con.-
versa#ion #th his wMte pony, many # ho# #d p#ed by;
when he carried fuel home for his mother; or when he shri#y
w#tled tMough his fingers, in spire of the store tha# raged
over #he fores#. They were plea#t visions, for they were those
of h# childhood. Nor had the #ght-hawk, af that bfigh# pefiod,
cried in his #rs the song of misfo#une; but from #haç hour ho
began fo ponder upon th#gs wMch were hot pl# fo him, but
whose presence he hea#fly relu.
In after4ffe many th#gs bec#e more d#r fo him; but, not-
withstand#g, he felt no be##r. #e remembered how his fam#y
had los# its c#te. How hard Ms p#’ents had worked fo
the# br#d! how often he had stood on the cart, or tan Mong
beside it, fo earn a little money! A# of wMch had no# oeemed
#j## until he w# #fomed that a nobleman w# al#ogether
$fferent from the test of ma##d. By de#ees his narval pfide
developed itse# and he suffered the tortue w#ch c# be more
#fly experienced than dcscfibed. In sho#, if offen appe#d
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