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54 BIOGRAPHY.
The Psalm-book, which was also one of the bridegroom’s
presents, was held in her left hand, together with a white
pocket-handkerchief spread out, and so large ‘that it looked
like a towel.
When the bride and the bridemaids at last were ready,
the latter dressed in white, with enormous bouquets of ar-
tificial flowers, not always of the prettiest, but full of gold
tinsel, stuck in their bosoms, they were conducted to the
upper storey, in order that the bride might admire herself
in the pier-glasses in the large drawing-room, and there
she wandered about a good while from one glass to the
other, and thought that she was “ cruelly grand.”
There was a popular belief in our parish that the one, of
those who were going to be united for life, who first should
catch a glimpse of the other before the ceremony,
would be the one who should afterwards obtain the sway
in the house. We sisters were of course very anxious
that the bride should first catch a glimpse of the bride-
groom; but nobody was more anxious about this than
Fredrika, and she always stood on the lookout, that she
might call the bride when she saw the bridegroom with
his train riding up.
This train of bridegroom’s men, all on horseback, was
most amusing to look at. It was headed by two musicians
playing the violin, who had the greatest difficulty in the
world to manage their horses, which seemed to be the case
more or less with all the equestrians, as the horses dashed
hither and thither during their calvacade up to the court-
yard. When they were assembled there, and the riders
had got off their steeds, and the female part of the assem-
blage had alighted from their vehicles, and they all had
entered the large hall, the bride, who a short time before
had gone down into the housekeeper’s room with her
bridemaids, made her appearance, giving her hand to her
future husband, curtseying to him at the same time. Two
processions were then formed: a fiddler, scraping his vio-
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