Show VI erlof r I of Recalls I 1st t Acceptance delicious unreality of ot an ano m o a first acc acceptance tance is one of J young oung writers writer's most vivid v mem- mem 5 51 Solma Lagerlof Sweden's S t author recalls calls this J moment In a story i the Hie Neue Freie Frele l Press Presse tesse of ot VIii Vit VI- VI I ii t happened one dark autumn Wing ning Ing in the year 1886 she says I few weeks before Christmas 1 s by the lighted lamp In m room busily occupied with the dIsh h exercises e written exercises written ones ones ones- ing school gIrls when I heard heardman ft mall man come up the tho steps 5 rL drop the letters Into the tho boxes V was alone In tho the house houge I hur- hur Lut out Into the ve- ve vestibule to get et 1 nt Ono One of the tho letters was wal for big envelope postmarked j holm I tore it open and sat nto read When I had fin fin- couple of lines linos m my hands I n 10 shako and the letters to tol j. j l I c In front of or m my eyes ees I up up from the letters and my J I fell on the blue exercise that lay scattered d on the ge t These I 1 gathered there Into a aad and nd ad threw as far tar awny away as J ible e s. s Then I sat down once JI I to o reread my letter |