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BIOGRAPHY. 75
plan was given up altogether ; we did not again mention it,
and glad I was that Fredrika never again alluded to the
subject.”
Fredrika stayed with this friend and excellent woman
again the following year, 1845, and, for the last time, to
watch at her sick-bed and close her eyes.
After her return from Norway, Fredrika remained some
time at home with my mother. She did not feel happy;
she longed for a change in her position in life, and she
now began making plans for her voyage to America. She
did not, however, communicate these plans either to my
mother or to Agatha, fearing that they would meet with
strenuous opposition.
Already, before Fredrika had been spoken of and had
a name as an authoress,—that is to say, before she had
completed her thirtieth year, — she had had three different
offers of marriage ; but she did not wish to marry.
One of the three persons who more than once tried to
persuade her to alter’her resolution, was an amiable young
man, of good family, for whom Fredrika, in her earliest
youth, had felt a kind of childish love ; but she would not
let herself be persuaded, believing that she was not made
for the married state, and that, if ever she were to try the
experiment, she would bitterly repent it, find herself un-
happy, and lose her dearly loved independence. Once
only she hesitated ; but it was for one moment only, when
an amiable, good, and original elderly gentleman hoped to
find in his union with her a compensation for the domestic
happiness which he had lost through the death of a be-
loved wife, and who saw in Fredrika the only one capable
of being a comfort and happiness to him during the re-
mainder of his days. After her thirtieth year, and when
she had already gained fame, she had several offers ; but
she remained true to her determination to live ena
(single),—a good expression, which she had learnt in
Norway.
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