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THROUGH SWEDEN. - 33
‘you meet Mr. Malmgrein, there you alfo find harmony and good
order. To the ladies he fhews all the little attentions in his power,
and appears ever ready.and eager to oblige them. It may fur-
prize the fair, that this man, who poffeffes the advantage of a fine
perfon, fhould be fo active and conftant in their fervice from
motives of the pureft and moft difinterefted nature: in fhort, this
man {ftands fingle in his kind; he has no enemies, becaufe he has
_no ambition; he has no care, becaufe he has no intereft to pur-
| fue; he has no flatterers, becaufe he has no favourite weaknefs ;
he never experiences any aggreflions, becaufe he poffeffes in his
integrity a fhield for their repulfion. Such was the firft perfon
we met with at Stockholm, when we were feeking for fome
place to pafs the nightin, that we might not be obliged to remain
in the carriage till morning. It will not appear furprizing, after
the character I have given of Mr. Malmgrein, that in the fpace of
half an hour he provided us with lodgings, a coach-houfe for our
carriage, a valet de place, and fent to our apartments an excel-
lent fupper. On the very fame evening he would needs fhew us
the city. As we were locking about for lodgings, he pointed out
us the ftatue of Guftavus III. the Princefs’s Palace, the Opera-
Houfe, and the North Bridge, at the fame time giving a particular
account, with the greateft rapidity, of the fums employed in the
conftruction of thofe edifices, and other particulars; when they
were begun, and by whom; how they were carried on, accidents
that delayed their accomplithment, and when they were finithed.
At firt I took him for a valet de place; but when I perceived
_ WoL. L if) that
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