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BIOGRAPHY. 61
letting Agatha remain another year in Paris, or by pur-
chasing an orthopedic bed, with the necessary machinery,
and bringing the same over to Sweden, so that Agatha
might here continue the same cure as long as it was expe-
dient. She had in several letters complained of home-
sickness, and it was therefore determined that my mother,
myself, and my brother Claes should go to Paris to fetch
her home. My father, who never looked at expense when
the welfare of any of his children was in question, gave a
considerable sum of money for the journey and .purchase
of the requisite machinery.
On our arrival in Paris we found Agatha, who, two years
previously, had been brought thither ill in health, suffering,
and prematurely old, now well, happy, youthful, and full of
life. Such a blessed effect had this treatment had upon
her. <A little elegant French woman amongst a number
of merry and lively companions, her friends in the institu-
tion, she spoke now only of her joy at returning to Sweden.
My joy at our happy meeting was in some degree embit-
tered by the thought of how Agatha would thrive at home ;
but I trusted in her innate happy and cheerful temper as
long as she remained well.
I took lessons for a fortnight of one of the brothers Milly,
superintendents of the institution, in order to be able to
continue the orthopedic treatment, and at the expiration of
that time we returned to Sweden.
After a few happy days spent at home in our family
circle, without restraint or machinery, the treatment pre-
scribed for Agatha was again commenced. But the ortho-
pedic bed was found to be so long that it was impossible to
find a suitable place for it in our rooms in town. It was
therefore decided in the autumn, when our family moved
to town, that Agatha should remain over the winter at
Arsta. I ought also to have remained there to nurse
Agatha, according to the method which I had studied in
Paris ; but my father would not hear it mentioned that I
should not go to town with him.
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