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18 BIOGRAPHY.
what Fredrika had been doing, probably thought that she
looked unusually well, and said to her later in the day,
“Your forehead is, after all, not so very low,” and Fre-
drika was enchanted with her successful handiwork. But
in a few days the hair began to grow again, sticking out
like bristles- Great was then her distress to find out how
this was to be prevented in future, and Fredrika was
obliged to walk about for some time with her bristles, until
the hairs had grown so long that they could be seized with
a pair of tweezers, when she tore them out, root and all.
They continued, however, to grow; but Fredrika perse-
vered patiently to pull them out, and produced ultimately
in this way a fine high forehead, which became her much
better than the low one which Nature had given her.
Fredrika was already, as a child, very inquisitive and
eager for information. She wanted to know every thing ;
was very restless, and put all kinds of questions, especially
on certain days, which I used to call her “ inquiring days.”
“ Bonne Amie” got tired, and told her to be quiet; and
Lena also got tired, and gave her no other answer than
“saucebox !” ‘Fredrika was occasionally excessively wild
and frolicsome, and then again she would dissolve in tears,
especially if she had been scolded, —and scoldings she
got, indeed, and plenty of them, particularly during our
stay in the country. There we had permission to go out,
and in our rambles Fredrika always managed to lose her
pocket-handkerchief, gloves, or garters; or she tore her
dress, or came home too late for dinner. She could never
learn to be punctual, and in this my father was very strict;
although she had an unusually good memory while study-
ing, yet she could never remember what was told her in
daily life. She was very anxious to please her parents,
and it grieved her deeply that she could not remember
what they told her, and to see them displeased with her.
Her childish freaks to burn her things, cut her clothes to
pieces, and so on, brought upon her many a severe scold-
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