Tell me where she is, and I will say nothing more about my passport," I added.
"Then your high Excellency wishes to see the young lady ?" he said reflectively, with the paper in his hand.
"Yes." "In that case, it being commanded by the Emperor that I shall serve your Excellency, I will have immediate inquiries made," was his answer.

"When I discover her whereabouts, I will do myself the pleasure of calling at your Excellency's hotel." And I left the fellow, very satisfied that I had turned his officiousness and hatred of the English to very good account.
On that gray, dreary northern coast the long winter was fast setting in.
Poor oppressed Finland suffers under a hard climate with August frosts, an eight months' winter in the north, and five months of frost in the south.

Idling in sleepy Abo, where the public buildings were so mean and meager and the houses for the most part built of wood, I saw on every hand the disastrous result of the attempted Russification of the country.

The hand of the oppressor, that official sent from Petersburg to crush and to conquer, was upon the honest Finnish nation.

The Russian bureaucracy was trying to destroy its weaker but more successful neighbor, and in order to do so employed the harshest and most unscrupulous officials it could import.
My fellow-traveler from Stockholm, who represented a firm of paper-makers in Hamburg, and who paid an annual visit to Abo and Helsingfors, acted as my guide around the town, while I awaited the information from the humbled Chief of Police.