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The Last Years in Stockholm 143
of us, and especially is this true of me, there
comes a time in life when we desire to make a
halt, to gather ourselves together, and ponder
past experiences. Moreover, I am country
bom, and the country calls me.
"It has been said here to-night that I have
sown seeds and kindled fires. I am deeply
conscious that the seeds might have been
more fully ripe, and that the fires might
have shone clearer, and been less dimmed
by smoke.
' *
I have taken part in the life-fate of so many
and have had to give out so much of myself
in small coin, that I now feel I must allow
myself solitude, in order to be more to the
few, and be able to give more to the many."
That Ellen Key left Stockholm and the life
which would have held fascination for most
people—being surrounded by admiring and
grateful listeners and a steadily increasing
circle of friends—was not the result, as some
supposed, of being wearied by the simultane-
ously increasing slander and misunderstanding.
It was the result rather of her feeling that she
was unable to give to all these friends all that
they expected, and also of the great demand
for free lectures and private advice.
Ellen Key does not belong to those who drop
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