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Removal of Family to Stockholm 55
when the noble old walls resounded with the
eloquent orations for freedom which sprang
from the lips of August Blanche, August Sohl-
man and Karl Fredrik Ridderstad . . . while
young Ellen Key by her father's side sat
gazing at the contestants with large, wondering
eyes, in which was the prophecy of the truth-
teller of the future."
We have had many opportunities of witness-
ing the unfeigned pleasure of the old Liberals
at finding Ellen Key among the invited
guests at social functions in the eighties.
Then, as always in large companies, she pre-
ferred listening to talking, taking a lively
part in conversation only in small and intimate
circles. She has never been a brilliant per-
sonage in society circles.
The vow to live for the enlightenment of
the people, which she had made to herself
that December night in 1865, gradually foimd
its expression in work among the peasants.
She had renewed this vow in the forest, by a
rock which became her altar, and without
further preliminaries, eager to start in at once,
she found the simple means of beginning by
taking up the work nearest at hand, that
of making herself useful in her immediate
surroundings.
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