Gay, adaptable, and practised, he
was the principal speaker at every social gathering. In his editorial
capacity he was courteous, decided, and a man of his word; he did not
allow himself to be alarmed by trifles. When Bjoernson attacked me (I was
at the time his youngest contributor), he raised my scale of pay,
unsolicited. The first hitch in our relations occurred when in 1869 I
published a translation of Mill's Subjection of Women. This book roused
Bille's exasperation and displeasure. He forbade it to be reviewed in
his paper, refused me permission to defend it in the paper, and would
not even allow the book in his house, so that his family had to read it
clandestinely, as a dangerous and pernicious work.
XXIV.
In the beginning of the year 1866 Ludvig David died suddenly in Rome, of
typhoid fever. His sorrowing parents founded in memory of him an
exhibition for law-students which bears and perpetuates his name. The
first executors of the fund were, in addition to his most intimate
friend, two young lawyers named Emil Petersen and Emil Bruun, who had
both been friends of his. The latter, who has not previously been
mentioned in these pages, was a strikingly handsome and clever young
man, remarkable for his calm and superior humour, and exceedingly self-
confident and virile.
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