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24 BIOGRAPHY.
and at the delicious fragrance which the stately lime-trees
diffused while they were in blossom. Grateful still for
these moments of enjoyment, I remember even now many
a beautiful Sunday morning —on the other days of the
week we were not allowed to go out until one o’clock — °
when we used to wander through the park down to the
sea, or sit under the old-fashioned porch facing the court-
yard, looking at the church people as they assembled.
My mother, who looked upon us as too much of children
to be able to understand a sermon, would not allow us
to go to church. This was a great loss both to Fredrika
and me, because we were then really seriously disposed, and
wished so much to attend the service. But we soon fell
upon the idea of seating ourselves upon a grass-sofa behind
a hedge of lilacs.
Shaded by beautiful birch-trees, this sofa stood close to
the chapel, on that side of it where the altar was placed.
Seated there, we could hear the whole service, and we did
not leave our place of concealment until the congregation
had left the church.
Fredrika’s tenth birthday, the 17th of August, was cele-
brated as all birthdays in our family, with a gouwter, or lunch-
eon, consisting of all kinds of nice things, — tea, lemonade,
tea-cakes, sweetmeats, fruits, &c., &c. During the preced-
ing winter I had conceived a bright idea. Fredrika had a
real passion for sweetmeats, and I had proposed to Hedda
and Claes that every time when, in the course of the
winter, we should get any sweetmeats, we should eat only
two or three of them each, and keep the remainder, in
order to collect a large quantity for Fredrika on her birth-
day. I undertook to take care of the treasure.
They agreed at once to my proposal, but when it came
to be realized, it frequently met with many difficulties.
The little children wanted to eat up all that they got, and
sometimes they seemed determined to besiege and storm
the wooden box in which I had treasured the sweetmeats.
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