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BIOGRAPHY. 100
panied by “ Bonne Amie,” to attend divine service. Fre
drika was, therefore, sitting in the carriage, looking with
eager attention, first to the right, then to the left, to see
whether any horsemen would be rushing out of the forest,
commanding the coachman to stop. When, therefore,
Sunday flex Sunday, we came back to Arsta_ with-
out any adventure, Fredrika found herself greatly disap-
pointed.
After having been locked up the following winter, as
usual, in Stockholm, Fredrika and I felt a greater desire
than éver to walk out and take exercise in the fresh air;
but how this was to be managed we were at a loss to un-
derstand. We discussed the matter together, and it was
determined that we should ask my mother’s permission to
go out occasionally, at all events twice a week. With a
palpitating heart I preferred my request. My mother an-
swered that she did not like it, and that it would not look
well for young girls to go out alone in the streets; that if
we were in want of exercise, we might stand behind a
chair, hold on to the back, and jump. When I came back
to Fredrika with this answer, she was in despair, but what
was to be done? I proposed that we should begin the
jumping that same evening, after we had said “ Good-
night” to our parents and come into our room. We did
so, and that night I made two hundred jumps behind my
chair, resting now and then for a moment; but Fredrika
had not performed one hundred before she gave in, began
to cry, went to bed and fell asleep, glad in sleep to forget
every thing. I continued jumping almost every evening,
and persuaded Fredrika now and then to try the same,
fancying that it did me a great deal of good, which it also
might have done her, being deprived as she was of other
exercise, but I could seldom induce her to do so. In one
thing, however, we agreed, namely, that no novel writers
ever would fall upon the idea of letting their heroines jump
behind chairs, by way of taking exercise. They would, no
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