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LETTERS. 181
man and I have, after a three years’ silence, commenced
some fire-works together. But they turn out only ashes in
the end. Not so my intercourse with Geijer. You, who
have seen him only a short time, cannot imagine what a
wealth of goodness, of fresh, bracing, noble life there is in
this man. His influence is in the highest degree invigor-
ating and ennobling; I do not know sometimes in what
way. His mere presence brings this with it. Like the
billows of the ocean, he is tossed, or seems to be tossed,
about by impulses; but they are directed by a wind from
heaven, so pure, so fresh. JI am very fond of him, and will
therefore not say any thing more of him, because I cannot
speak of him highly enough to please myself. But, thank
God, that I have made Geijer’s acquaintance! The Baron-
ess Knorring was very much charmed with him; he less
with her, although he was exceedingly friendly, and did not
do what Brinckman and Franzén could not leave off doing,
“tease her about her supposed authorship. Franzén has
got very old, and it seems as if he could not long tarry
here on earth. But he decays in a noble way, like the
temples of antiquity; he looks well in his pallor, with the
poetical expression of his face, and with his gentle, patri-
archal manner. To me he is exceedingly kind. But,
now to lesser notabilities in the world of mankind, who,
nevertheless, in God’s world may stand equally high as
the more prominent ones. Who ought not then to stand
here on the top of the ladder, but thou, honest, good
R , so firm in friendship, so faithful in the fulfilment
of all good deeds and of your duty; although a little in-
tolerable when you repeat the same thing over and over,
making the same indifferent remarks, till from very weari-
ness one ceases to argue a point on which it is impossible
to coincide with you; but a little harmless tediousness is
permitted to nag as much as it pleases: the heart is never-
theless in the right place, and so is the head. R—— is in
good health this year, and in good humor; he carries
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