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50 BIOGRAPHY.
night’s stay in Paris they returned home, having left Agatha
at the above-mentioned excellent institution, where, before
their departure, she already felt herself improving under
the treatment. ‘Two amiable Parisian ladies, acquaintances
of my parents, Madame Holterman and Madame Pictet,
promised my mother to take» the little, lovable Swede
under their maternal care ; and these good, excellent ladies
fulfilled their promise faithfully during a period of two
years.
My father went one day, about the end of September,
down into the park at Arsta, and took a bath in the bath-
house built there. This had such a bad effect upon his
health that he became seriously ill the following day, and
he felt his feet becoming almost paralyzed. Our family
physician, the eminent Dr. E m, was sent for, and he
declared that my father must be at once removed to town,
in order to have proper attendance. The following day
my father was placed in a close carriage, and my mother
and I went with him to nurse him. My sisters and brother
came to town a fortnight later; and now commenced a
time of sickness and severe suffering for my father, which
returned every winter, but which he bore with admirable
patience without ever once complaining. Only the expres-
sion of pain in his face betrayed how much he suffered.
The disease, which was gout, having now attacked his
body, my father was so kind, so little exacting, so satis-
fied with every thing, and frequently so cheerful, that we
felt convinced that the gout had formerly been in his tem-
per, because my father when ill, and my father when in
health, were two very different beings. Probably, also, his
more cheerful temper was owing to his altered diet.
It was the wish of my mother, and of us all, to make this
time of severe trial as pleasant to my father as possible.
When his sufferings were not too severe we read aloud to
him a great many accounts of travels, which always inter-
ested him; and whenever the gout did not attack his hands,
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