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.