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. BIOGRAPHY.
dictates of her heart, she married General Baron, after-
wards Field-Marshal Count Fabian Wrede.
Foreseeing the fate which was in store for Finland, his
heart overflowing with grief, my father determined to re-
move to Sweden before the dreaded hour should arrive.
After having sold one of his estates, he left Finland in the
year 1804, together with his wife, his mother-in-law, and
four children born in that country, and settled in Stock-
holm. The following year he purchased the estate of
Arsta, in the parish of Oster-Hanninge, about three
Swedish, or twenty English, miles from the capital. Little
children of three years of age cannot have any recollec-
tions ; and all that I can remember .is, that we lived in
Abo, beside a market-place, in a house which belonged to
my parents.
My mother had brought with her from Finland a young
housekeeper, a Miss Louise Synnerberg, who became
Fredrika’s and my first teacher. From her we learned to
read Swedish; and,in 1806, when I had completed my
sixth, and Fredrika had not quite attained her fifth year,
we had a governess whom we have to thank, not only for
all that we have learnt, but also for her motherly tender-
ness and kindness towards us. The name of this friend so
dear to, so beloved by us, was Sara Eleanore de Frumerie;
she was descended from a French emigrant family. Hav-
ing no property of her own, and having devoted herself to
the calling of a teacher, she determined to drop the de,
calling herself Miss Frumerie. Just, truthful, and God-
fearing, she laid the foundation of all that was good in us.
By her pleasant and judicious method of imparting knowl-
edge to us, she made her pupils not only anxious to learn,
the more the better, but also to find a real pleasure in
learning. To her we came in all our troubles, and in her
we placed an unbounded confidence,
At the time when Fredrika and I were children, there
did not exist the same relation between parents and chil-
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