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10 BIOGRAPHY.
her daughter, who were always so very friendly to us. We
had then to pass through a large apartment, the walls of
which were covered with gilt leather in sombre figures, and
the floor was inlaid with large, square, polished stones.
We were a little afraid of passing through this room; but
we used to run as fast as possible, and in that manner al-
ways got through it without any adventure.
In a large apartment in that part of the flat which was
occupied by my parents, were seen two well-painted por-
traits of the former owners of Arsta, — Mistress Barbro
Akes’s daughter Natt-och-Dag of Géholm and Hedesé —a
severe and ‘sharp-looking ede ; and her husband, Admiral
Bjelkenstjerna, —the latter cased in full armor, looking
very fierce. From this apartment we had a view of a long
avenue leading down to a creek or arm of the Baltic,
which could be descried only when the water happened to
be very high. From most of the other rooms in the build-
ing, which stood on an eminence, the eye wandered over
meadows, and fields, and villages belonging to the estate,
stretching in one direction over nearly five English miles.
Two churches raised their old-fashioned, high, pointed
spires above the distant forest. They were the Oster and
Wester Hanninge churches.
Only once during this summer my parents invited their
relatives and friends from town to a so-called “hemkom-
él,’ or house-warming. Dinner was served in the banquet-
ing-hall, and after dinner the guests drank coffee under
the high, two hundred years’ old maples, which, planted in
two rows, divided the court-yard from the garden, form-
ing a broad, shady walk.
When autumn and cold weather set in at last, my par-
ents moved to town, and during several succeeding years
we lived winter after winter, each week like the last: much
reading, little eating, and rarely permission to go out.
Another difficulty was now added to our other troubles.
My mother considéred it very wholesome that we should
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