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The Young Countess
The young Countess slept till ten o’clock
every morning, and liked to have fresh bread
every day on the breakfast table. The young Countess
did tambour work and read poetry; she understood
nothing of cooking or weaving. The young
Countess was decidedly spoiled. But she was joyous
and let her happiness shine upon everything
and everybody. The long sleep in the morning and
the fresh bread were easily forgiven her, for she was
a spendthrift in doing good to the poor and was
friendly to every one.
Her father was a Swedish nobleman, who had
spent all his life in Italy, kept prisoner there by
the beauty of the country and by one of its
beautiful daughters. When Count Henrik Dohna had
travelled in Italy, he had been received in their
home, he had learned to know the daughters, had
married one of them and brought her back to
Sweden.
She, who had always known Sweden and had
been brought up to love all that was Swedish, was
very happy in the “"Bear Country.” She whirled
along so gaily in the long dance ofpleasure that
circled round the Löfven shore, you might imagine
she had always lived there. She understood little of
what it meant to be a countess. There was no
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