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His own legal practice at last |
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he poet, nearly 46 by now, began to
hope once more that he could to start a new life with
Ana Jelovšek
and their two children, Ernestina
and Franc. In autumn 1846 he moved to Kranj, together
with his sister Katra and Andrej Smole, the son of his
late friend, whom he had taken on as a clerk.
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At first, things went well. The newly
appointed lawyer had plenty of work, he even had to take
on another clerk. The Poems were positively received by
the critics and sold well for those times; 1200 copies
had been printed, 150 of which included the acrostic dedicated
to Julija. The poet kept these copies himself, giving
them as gifts to those he deemed worthy of having them.
In just over two years, approximately 350 copies were
sold, and over the next twenty years, almost all were
sold. But all this came too late for the poet himself.
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