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The Floral King. 73
all, had then good reason for writing about those
days, ‘‘ Everything prospered here with me;”
and here he was to cull the softest and most
ethereal flower that grows in the garden of man’s
life, his first and only love.
In Falun lived the district Physician, Dr. Johan
Morzeus, at whose house Linnzus was a frequent
guest, and with whose charming eldest daughter,
Sarah Elizabeth, our young hero fell deeply in
love. That the tender passion was returned he
felt certain, through the responsive ardent glances
of her beautiful eyes, although he had not as yet
ventured upon declaring himself, for he had at
present too poor a prospect to offer the daughter
of the learned and highly respectable doctor.
However, his intimate clerical friend, Brovallius,
advised him to do this, the sooner the better, for
as the young lady’s father was considered a rich
man, the pecuniary prospects of Linnzeus would
also be better through the engagement, and it
was time that Linnzus should proceed to Holland
to take his medical degree, as was then the custom,
and, after a stay of some three years, he would
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