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sleeping. so peaceful, so saint-like her whole appearance.
She had scarcely changed at all, and the light of the lamp,
which hung down from the top of the little vault, prevented
- our seeing the first traces of decay, which were noticeable
by daylight. In her hand she held her crown of myrtles ;
bouquets of myrtles and heart’s-ease were laid in the coffin
round her feet. The castrum doloris was richly decorated
with beautiful flowers, and the floor strewn with myrtle and
many flowers. It was a beautiful death-bed. It was like
Hedda’s memory. All said that they had never seen death
in a more pleasing form. Tears of sincere regret were
wept over her. Brinckman, strange to say, wept most bit-
terly. On the plate at her feet was written, “ Blessed
are the peaceful, for they shall be called the children
of God ;” and on the plate at her head, “ Hedda Bremer,
her, mother’s and sisters’ darling. Born ; died ——.”
After the funeral, to which only the most intimate ac-
quaintances and our relations were invited, F and the
K s remained with us all the evening, and it was not a
sad evening. She was free from pain, liberated, and saved
in the bosom of her Heavenly Father! Oh, what a com-
fort it was to know this! I cannot tell you how much com-
fort I especially feel at this deliverance! Her suffering was
to me a chalice full of bitterness. I dreaded it, I revolted
against it. Her death was to me, as well as to her, an
opiate. Our mother’s grief is deep, but she is so resigned
and tolerably composed. To-morrow we leave for the coun-
try, but return to town next week, to accompany Hedda to
her last resting-place. I trust that Agatha’s health and the
tender love of her friends will enable her to keep up her
courage.
F has been all to us during the whole of this time.
Tenderly as a brother he has wept for Hedda, at whose
death-bed he was present; and ever since he has been like
a son to our mother, like a brother to us. May you and
your husband reap much benefit from a journey, one half
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