This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...had shown herself gracious, it was probable that he would visit his relatives in Stockholm during his stay in Carlberg. On account of all this, the Majorskan resolved to have a serious conversation with her son, especially as she had no suspicion as yet of her sister-in-law's sudden departure, but believed that Arvid, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 Excerpt: ...had shown herself gracious, it was probable that he would visit his relatives in Stockholm during his stay in Carlberg. On account of all this, the Majorskan resolved to have a serious conversation with her son, especially as she had no suspicion as yet of her sister-in-law's sudden departure, but believed that Arvid, according to a previous decision, would travel with his aunt and cousin. When the Majorskan entered his room, he lay at full length on the sofa, with a shawl over his breast, which she immediately recognized as Albertine's. "Are you sick, my boy?" asked the Majorskan, going to the-youth, who, at his mother's entrance, sat up directly. "No, another, I am perfectly welL Why did you think that I was sick 1" He took his mother's hand, which sho had passed gently over bis brow. "Because you, who are usually so given to roaming around the country with papa, now spend most of the time in your room. Say, my child, is anything the matter with you?" "Ah, mother, what should be the matter with me here in this-dear homo, where everything speaks of your tenderness and care?" The Majorskan had seated herself beside her son, and he leaned his dark head against her shoulder. "But, Arvid, to spend whole hours in idle solitude is not good or beneficial. You abandon yourself to a sickly drean ing, and this has an injurious effect upon the feelings, which at your age ought to be fresh and buoyant. Fancy necessarily plays so large a role in youth that weought not te give it undue nourishment, and thus call forth dangerous illusions, about ourselves and others. No, my boy, you must seek your joy in a lively activity. Only for the unoccupied, for the lazy, is time long; and these sooner or later become weary of themselves...
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