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'Swendon? she said when I spoke to her about this call. 'The Swedish Svens? I remember. Queen Christina's gallant lieutenant was her great-grandfather. Good stock. None better. The girl must belong to our circle. So, now it is all settled!" rubbing his hands and smiling. "Jane is careless," said the captain eagerly. "People of the best fashion have called, and she has not even left cards.
There was Karin Svens, the sprightly lass of a soldier's daughter, who had not missed a day at school. She, with the others, wondered why the sexton had not told them what there was remarkable about the stones in Motala Stream. Schoolmaster Tyberg stood looking very grave while Schoolmaster Blackie sat gazing at the floor, much perturbed.
It seemed as if they all knew that he loved her. The captain found Mr. Neckart standing on the stoop listening to some sound that came up from the woods. "It is Jane singing," he said. "You would not hear her once in a year. Hereditary gift! In the old Swedish annals we read of the remarkable voices of the Svens." "I never heard her sing before." Yet he had known at once that it was she.
She wrote home to her old mother that the Swendons, descended from the leaders of the first Swedish settlers, that family of Svens from whom Penn bought the land for his village of Philadelphia, had possessed culture and social rank, if no money, for centuries.
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