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BIOGRAPHY. 93
the sincerest joy: the abolition of slavery in the United
States of America; a law passed in Sweden, that unmar-
ried women should attain their majority at twenty-five years
of age; the organization in Stockholm of a seminary for
educating female teachers; and the parliamentary reform
in Sweden, carried through in such a dignified manner.
It was more especially after her return from her last
journey that Fredrika was constantly importuned, not only
by a number of persons who wanted to beg or borrow
money of her; by authoresses who came to request her to
read through and improve their, for the most part, unim-
provable writings ; but also by both men and women who
wanted her assistance to procure employment for them.
She got in this way more and more overrun by all kinds
of people. Frequently poor Fredrika felt very unhappy
that it was not in her power to assist all the really poor
and destitute; but she assured me that she had taught
herself to say “ No!” with the greatest coolness to persons
who were perfect strangers to her, and who wanted to bor-
row of her both large and small sums of money.
Fredrika, while she was residing during the winters in
Stockholm, had been in the habit of giving small evening
parties, sometimes twice a week, in her comfortable little
home, to which a few friends and more intimate acquaint-
ances were invited. But she had now become tired of
these sotrées, and wished to live henceforth in quiet.
This wish, and the feeling that it would be necessary for
her to flee from Stockholm, in order to escape from all
those who came to ask for assistance, and almost every day
occupied her time, made her determine to remove sonie
miles from Stockholm into the country, and thus the
thought and wish arose in her to remove to Arsta, which,
since the autumn of 1853, had not belonged to our family.
Before making up her mind to stay for any greater length
of time, she wanted first to try how she would find herself
there under these altered circumstances, and therefore she
spent three months of the summer of 1864 at Arsta.
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