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264. LETTERS.
Thanks for the little beautiful sketch of your home-life
at S o! How glad I am for your sake, at your alliance
with this family, which assuredly will give your pure and
good heart just what it wanted, to live rightly and actively
in your home as well as in society.
My favorite study now is the works of the Swiss, A.
Vinet. He is a christian Emerson, high-minded like him
in the worship of truth and spiritual liberty, but greater in
his induction ; and in his deduction, greater in humility,
more perfect in every way, and to me he is one of the most
valuable acquaintances amongst the literature of later
days.
Your friend,
FREDRIKA BrEMER.
TO THE COUNTESS LOTTEN VON R
Arsra, 4th September, 1864.
I write to you to-day from my ancestral hall and home,
where I have not resided since about ten years ago, when
it passed into the hands of another owner. Previous to
that time, I had with the exception of the several years I
spent in Norway, Denmark, and America, passed the
greater part of my life here, rarely satisfied, never happy,
except at those times when I was permitted to stay here
alone; in my youth longing to get away from here, out into
the great stirring, ever-changing world; away from the
nionastic solitude a Arsta, mere my whole life was spent
in my inner dream-world, and in the gleams of light which
books and the restless workings of my brain occasionally
shed over the same; but never receiving any satisfactory
answers to my heaven-storming questions. It has appeared
strange to me, now in my old age (I have lately completed
my sixty-third year), to be again for a few quiet weeks in
this house, and to look back from my observatory in the
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