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(1868) [MARC] Author: Fredrika Bremer Translator: Emily Nonnen With: Charlotte Bremer
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170 LETTERS.

self. More than ever do I work, in order to improve and
perfect what gifts I possess, so that next time I may appear
before the public less unfinished. But I shall yet wait
awhile. It does me an immense deal of good to be alone,
to see so few people, to live undisturbed for my calling.
Besides, I have a kind of nervousness which makes me
unfit for, and also disagreeable to people. This is at times
very painful to me; but I feel with gratitude that it brings
with it some more positive good. I will, therefore, devote
myself more exclusively to my calling. Amongst certain
people I find myself, however, more at ease, and to them
I feel a kind of gratitude. You, my dearest Charlotte, are
one of them, and I remeniber this with delight from the
town where I was with you last. Beside you I always felt
repose and comfort. So also I do beside my splendid
Lady Stina. Her’s is a bright, energetic, and artless nature,
and in her society one gets refreshed in body and soul.
And then she is so good and amiable! I love her most
sincerely.

You have heard of Hedda’s strange complaint. It makes
me exceedingly uneasy. I cannot help fearing that it will
prove dangerous, and God save us from the grief that
Hedda should —. I dare not write it, I dare not think it.
I do not know what then would become of us all. May
God protect our dear Hedda! I long to see her again, and
intend going home this sunimer for a few weeks. I shall
then return to this place. It is best so for us all.

You are right, dear Charlotte! “I have not been able
to make Bruno * fall deeply enough ” with respect to deeds,
for only then true love could reveal its power and sub-
limity. Ah! when the guilty to the eyes of the indiffer-
ent spectator disappears in the depths of his dark abyss,
when he has forfeited every body’s sympathy and interest,
and when the pure and the good turn away from him with
horror, then it is that true love triumphantly feels its power,

1In The Neighbors.

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