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214 The Floral King.
‘*2, That my son may become authorized to the
professorship.
“3. That I may occupy the chair as long as I
please, while he perfects himself further-
more.
“To my son I have only given my library of
books, manuscripts, herbarium, naturalies, to a value
of 70,000 dal., but for my four helpless girls I
am concerned at heart; I have portioned to them
the remaining shreds of property, real and move-
ables, which I have been able to scrape together in
this world. I have my pleasure now on Sundays to
go to my country seat, to free myself from town-
bustle ; when I am there I think a hundred times
of my absent brothers and sisters, and wish they
would pay me a visit, while I still remain in this
world: but my wish seems to be in vain. I have
plenty of visits from plausible friends, but not from
those I most desire.
“I well understand that the days of my dear
relatives by degrees hasten to their end.
‘** May the Supreme Being ease the ailings of old
age, that at last we may depart this world, and
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