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The Swedes are neither licentious, nor extravagantly over-mannered: the Stockholmers are both. During the whole of our journey to Lapland, we were invariably treated with a courtesy which bordered on kindness, and had abundant opportunities of noticing the general amenity which exists in the intercourse even of the poorest classes.
You must make yourself at home here, Clement. This city does not belong exclusively to the Stockholmers. It belongs to you and to all Swedes. "As you read about Stockholm, remember that I have spoken the truth, for the city has the power to draw every one to it.
As a guard of honour here, stand Fogelberg's Odin, and Sergei's Amor and Psyche. And what is the Streamparterre? The Neapolitans would tell us: It is in miniature quite in miniature the Stockholmers' "Villa Reale." The Hamburgers would say: It is in miniature quite in miniature the Stockholmers' "Jungfernstieg."
This was our first country meal in Norrland, of whose fare the Stockholmers have a horror, yet that stately capital never furnished a better. If you think the bill of fare too heavy and solid, take a drive of fifteen miles in the regions of Zero, and then let your delicate stomach decide.
The southern suburb, however, is a single long hill, up the steep side of which the houses climb, row after row, until they reach the Church of St. Catherine, which crowns the very summit. Still beyond is the Djurgård, or Deer-Park, a singularly picturesque island, nearly the whole of which is occupied by a public park, and the summer villas of the wealthy Stockholmers.
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