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BIOGRAPHY. 65
sent to me by the amiable Countess W——, formerly Lady
¥F , daughter of the former owner of Arsta. I always
gratefully remember this graceful kindness.
My mother and my two youngest sisters left for Stock-
holm, but Fredrika remained with us.
Much as I loved to see Fredrika in our house, I yet
dreaded the winter, when her friend would return to Chris-
tianstad from her estate in another province. But matters
were changed. Her friend came back, but seized with a
mortal illness, and now Fredrika became her guiding, min-
istering angel, pointing out to her the road to heaven, to
which Fredrika wished to lead all.
In the spring, Fredrika’s friend longed to go into the
country, and in an almost dying state she was carried out
to her beautiful country-seat, distant some miles from
Christianstad. Fredrika wished to join her, and I accom-
panied her thither. Fredrika remained with her friend
until about the middle of summer, when she returned to us,
deeply affected and mourning her whose eyes she had closed.
At her death-bed Fredrika gained a new friend, the Count-
ess S , a near relative and friend of the departed.
Countess S invited Fredrika to spend a year with her
at her estate, Tomb, in Norway, provided she was not afraid
of the complete seclusion from the world in which she lived
there.
Fredrika accepted this offer as one of the most desirable
which could be made to her. In her then melancholy state
of mind, she only longed to get away from people and from
society, “the farther away the better,” as she said when, in
August, 1833, we took leave of each other. I felt happy
at seeing her under the protection of the good Countess
S She remained two years at Tomb. The quiet and
perfect retirement which Fredrika enjoyed there was to her
a real “elixir of life,” as she expressed herself in one of her
letters to me. What added to her happiness was, that she
was allowed to arrange her mode of life exactly as she
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