256 THROUGH THE FIELDS WITH LINN&US 



none else would.' Her father could not be expected to 

 do the same ; much as he liked Linnaeus personally, it 

 was difficult to win him over to accept the student as a 

 suitor for his daughter. But finally, after infinite per- 

 suasion, it was arranged that if Linnaeus would take a 

 doctor's degree, and if he could succeed in making a 

 sufficient fortune during a three years' probation in 

 absence abroad, at the end of that time he should be 

 accepted as a son-in-law, and settle down in Falun as a 

 practical physician under Dr. Moraeus. 



So closely was Carl wrapped in the romance of 

 love's young dream that he did not feel this to be a 

 clipping of his wings, nor suspect that in this way the 

 parents might calculate on being fairly rid of him, and 

 the baron might come on again undisturbed. Hard as 

 the conditions were, with his usual impetuosity Carl ac- 

 cepted them at once, and, to the astonishment of Dr. 

 Moraeus and his wife, he undertook to set out at once 

 for Harderwyk to fulfil the first article the obtaining of 

 the doctor's degree. They would have been still more 

 surprised had they known that their daughter, their 

 prudent Elizabeth, brought him the savings of her 

 pocket-money, one hundred dollars, 1 and gave them to 

 him. How exquisite this Elizabeth was, thus to further 

 his views, and make more precious the sacrifice she was 

 ready to make for him, inspiring him with emotions of 

 gladness and gratitude too deep for any words ! Elizabeth, 



1 Stoever considers this sum, with his own thirty-six ducats, 

 made about six hundred copper dollars. 



