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dreaming, while the sun sinks, and then wakes with a 

 start to remember he is a stranger to the town and 

 has food and a night's lodging to seek. He is 

 weary and somewhat footsore. It becomes chilly too, 

 the sea breeze carrying the cold so uninterruptedly 

 from the Tartar steppes causes him to shiver. It is 

 colder here than further inland. The poplars are 

 leafless, though budding, and hereabouts the young 

 hedge leaves are quite pale green, almost white, as if 

 grown in the dark. Still it is a prosperous easy-looking 

 land, with slight undulations, and to all appearance well 

 peopled. 



Carl entered the town by way of the bishop's palace, 

 the hospital and university buildings, through the grove 

 of elms and horse-chestnuts round the cathedral. The 

 name Lund signifies in Swedish a pleasant grove. 



It is too late to present his credentials, such as they 

 are, to-night ; besides, the longer he can postpone the 

 ignominious process of showing the Wexio certificate of 

 his incompetence the better. He must sup and look 

 for an inn, as he does not know the address of his cousin 

 Carl Tiliander's lodgings; and as for his relative 

 Humerus, the professor with whom he is to live, it will 

 be too late an hour to present himself before a college 

 don after he has shaken off the dust of travel and made 

 the best of himself. Besides, a few more hours of 

 liberty will not come amiss. 



The Stadshuset Hotel is much too large and impor- 

 tant for his purse. It is customary in Sweden to find 



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