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whole sheet of grey paper, and between each
lay withered flowers, deposited and forgotten –
a whole herbarium, gathered in different places.
He himself had requested that it should be laid
in the grave with him. A chapter of his life
was blended with every flower.
"Who is that dead man?" we asked, and
the answer was: "The old student from
Upsala. They say he was once very clever; he
knew the learned languages, could sing and write
verses too; but then there was something that
went wrong, and so he gave both his thoughts
and himself up to drinking spirits, and as his
health suffered by it, he came out here into
the country, where they paid for his board and
lodging.
"He was as gentle as a child, when the dark
humour did not come over him, for then he
was strong, and ran about in the forest like a
hunted deer; but when we got him home, we
persuaded him to look into the book with the
dry plants. Then he would sit the whole day
and look at one plant, and then at another,
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