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The Last Years in Stockholm 157
drove her away. It was, as already noted, her
deep yearning for the country, a yearning
which had been present during all the years in
Stockholm. This longing did not, however,
attain its original goal—the home of her child-
hood—as she exr 'ned in an interview.
When the question s put to her as to where
she wished to live, she answered :
" My parental
home, Sundsholm, where I was bom and where
I spent the happy years of my childhood, is
now in the hands of strangers. Never again
may I return there. But thither I yearn with
my whole heart, though in vain. How happy
I should be if I could procure that bit of soil,
if it were vouchsafed me to enter Sundsholm
as its owner, to be allowed to arrange and
direct and work there, to see the trees blossom
and the grass grow in the place where my soul
and all my being have their roots, and to sleep
in the little gable room where I dreamt the
dreams of my childhood." From her child-
hood home and her paradise, the little gable
room at Sundsholm, Ellen Key was driven out
into the bustling world to assist in the building
of new homes for new people. Her youth and
her dream life she carries with her, and where-
ever she has her home youth and visions will
accompany her as long as she lives.
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