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BIOGRAPHY. OT
be gone, and Fredrika peacefully drew her last breath, at
three o’clock on the morning of the last day of the year, to
awake again in heaven.
Happy they who have lived as she had done! they are
every moment ready to enter into the mansions of the
blessed.
The wind had gone down, the sky had become bright
and clear, and the moon lit up the room in which Fre-
drika was now lying quietly, as one asleep.
She had finished her earthly career, during which’ she
had been permitted to realize the dearest wish of her
youth, —< to live for the sake of comforting, consoling, and
relieving her suffering fellow-men ; and this noble, loving
heart, which had glowed so warmly and bravely for the
light of truth and the weal of humanity, had ceased to
beat. Many are they who bless her memory.and mourn
her loss. ‘The following day we got a detailed account of
all the particulars of Fredrika’s last illness. Fredrika,
whose greatest pleasure it was to give pleasure to others,
had, on Christmas Eve, invited thirty children belonging
to the families of the farmers and laborers on the estate.
After a liberal entertainment, every child got a Christmas-
box, and they were then allowed to dance round a beauti-
fully decorated Christmas-tree, radiant with light. Fre-
drika danced with them, and taught them several games ;
in a word, she over-exerted herself, and went to bed later
than usual. On Christnias Day she drove to church. After
the service she stood for some time in the church-yard
conversing with several people. The wind was high and
piercing, and it is supposed that it was then she caught
cold. She was, however, well and cheerful the whole day.
During the night she was taken ill, and when Mrs. § g,
her hostess, on the following day, wanted to send for a
physician, Fredrika would not allow it, saying, that she
knew her own constitution well, and that if she did not get
better in the course of the day, she would then take some
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