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you meet Mr. Malmgrein, there you alfo find harmony and good 
order. To the ladies he fhews all the little attentions in his power, 
and appears ever ready and eager to oblige them. It may fur- 
prize the fair, that this man, who poflefles the advantage of a fine 
perfon, fhould be fo adtive and conftant in their fcrvice from 
motives of the pureft and moft difinterefled nature: in fliort, this 
man Hands fingle in his kind; he has no enemies, becaufe he has 
no ambition ; he has no care, becaufe he has no interefl: to pur- 
fue; he has no flatterers, becaufe he has no favourite weaknefs ; 
he never experiences any aggreffions, becaufe he poflefles in his 
integrity a fhield for their repulfion. Such was the firfl: perfon 
we met with at Stockholm, when we were feeking for fome 
place to pafs the night in, that we might not be obliged to remain 
in the carriage till morning. It will not appear furprizing, after 
the character I have given of Mr. Malmgrein, that in the fpace of 
half an hour he provided us with lodgings, a coach-houfe for our 
carriage, a valet de place, and fent to our apartments an excel¬ 
lent fupper. On the very fame evening he would needs fhew us 
the city. As we were locking about for lodgings, he pointed out 
us the ftatue of Guftavus III. the Princefs’s Palace, the Opera- 
Houfe, and the North Bridge, at the fame time giving a particular 
account, with the greatefi: rapidity, of the fums employed in the 
conflru&ion of thofe edifices, and other particulars; when they 
were begun, and by whom ; how they were carried on, accidents 
that delayed their accompl-ifhment, and when they were finiflicd. 
At firfl; I took him for a valet de place; but when I perceived 
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