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i8 Ellen Key
point, was tenanted by Captain Mans Hultin,
his wife and children. The youngest daughter,
Lisa, was bom the same year as Ellen, and the
two girls have been friends from infancy.
At Bjorno, Ellen learned to reverence the
good old things and customs in an aristocratic
and patriarchal home, a reverence which is
often expressed in her writings. These in-
fluences of olden times were strengthened at
Kallemas. The lasting impressions Ellen Key
received from this home are countless. She
has written of Fru Hultin with grateful ap-
preciation. The rare old-fashioned atmos-
phere has never faded from Ellen's memory
and, especially the fairy-tales and harpsichord
music of Fru Hultin, did much to nourish
the child's imagination.
The old couple lived to celebrate their
diamond wedding, dying in 1883, the same
year that the Key family left Sundsholm.
Ellen Key ends her biographical sketch of Fru
Hultin with these words: "In this existence
of oiu-s, where our life experiences are for
the most part made up of yearnings and dis-
appointments, it is only for those who have
never disappointed our trust that we always
yearn. These personalities, who stand out in
unsullied purity against the golden back-
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