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BIOGRAPHY. 21
the other, they formed a large heap. When all this was
done, my father locked the door to the wardrobe, took out
the key, patted us, and told us not to mention what we had
seen to any body, except to “ Bonne Amie;” not to Lena,
lest the little children should hear of it. We promised
this, and kept our word.
Before the end of the year we heard it said, that, during
the height of the war, Count Gustavus L——m had put
the royal seal upon these chests, and had brought them
over with him to Sweden, and that they contained the pur-
chase money for a foundry and an estate in Finland, which
my father had sold.
This or the following year, I am not quite sure which
my father bought the estate of Nyniis, in the parish ot
Osmo, probably with the contents of the linen bags which
we had taken out of the chests. My parents took up their
abode at Nyniis the ensuing summer. The situation was
exceedingly beautiful; but the principal dwelling-house,
old and very decayed, contained only one floor, consisting
of low rooms, so very different to those which we had been
accustomed to at Arsta.
One thing very delightful at Nyniis was, that two glass
doors opened out of a very large dining-room to the gar-
den, into which we descended by two low steps. At the
back of the dwelling-house was a spacious court-yard,
planted all round with high, shady lime-trees, and opposite
it was a beautiful chapel, in which divine service was held
every Sunday. An arm of the Baltic came up close to
one side of the fine court-yard, and we had there a splen-
did view of the wooded shores, and in the background, at
some distance, was an island covered with stately oaks.
Oh! how beautiful it was there, and on Sundays how sol-
emn! Then, early in the morning, the people belonging
to the estate were all assembled in the court-yard clad in
their holiday dress; they seated themselves, some upon a
row of benches placed on that side which was nearest to
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