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94 BIOGRAPHY.
On her return to town, Fredrika was greatly charmed
with the patriarchal family who were now the owners of
our former paternal estate, and she had vastly enjoyed the
peace and quietness in which she had lived there. She
therefore determined to remove to Arsta the following
summer, to board with the present owners, and she elise
the rooms which were to be put in order for her. Besides
the hope of the rural peace which she would enjoy there,
her kind, generous heart was gladdened when she thought
that by this change she would save a considerable portion
of her annual income, to give away, compared with what
she was able to do formerly, while living in Stockholm.
In the spring of 1865, Fredrika was seized with a severe
attack of erysipelas, and until the month of July she had
not recovered so far as to be able to remove to Arsta ; but
there she soon recovered her health and strength. During
the visits which Fredrika, later in the summer, paid to my
husband and me at our little country-seat, we heard with
sincere pleasure that she found herself more happy and
contented than she had ever felt before at Arsta. Her
mind was also now at ease; all doubts of God’s goodness
and justice had vanished; all rebellious feelings, which had
been awakened in her, when contemplating the unequal
lots on earth, were silenced ; and when we, especially on her
last visit to us, spoke of some unhappy people whom we
knew personally, and who in poverty and sickness had for
years been suffering great bodily pain, I found Fredrika
full of hope, and convinced that their sufferings here below
would be requited in a double measure in a better world.
In a word, I had never before seen Fredrika so hopeful
and so calm.
I cannot better paint the peaceful state of her mind than
by quoting her own beautiful words, written, most probably,
at the close of her life : — ;
“No longer against destiny I murmur;
The Providence of God I clearly see;
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