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objects only partly lit up, and many still in darkness; they
light ‘up only the heights, only the general outlines of the
landscape. They forebode and bring with them a more
complete light, and this will, if it pleases God, also come in
due time. Your impression of this book delights me, and
that is all that I dare at present wish. You have rightly
understood its leading idea: the right idea of God, as
shown in Christ’s manifestation, creates in man a higher
and nobler life, and saves him from anxiety and darkness.
We learn here to know God as a loving Father, and we,
and those dear to us, repose on His heart and in His care.
I read here for the first time Madame de Sévigné’s
“Letters.” I am delighted with their liveliness and wit,
and astonished to see how pleasantly at that time people
enjoyed each other’s society. ‘Those were other “ parties”
and other sensations than those of Messrs. N. N. and Com-
pany of our own time. But very afraid were they of old
age and of death. Rather than encounter these, the
charming Sévigné would have renounced the life which she
had lived, and wished to have died in the arms of her nurse.
The ever-sparkling champagne in her letters could not
keep up the interest, unless this thema of ardent, living
love, “ Ma fille! ma fille!” was not constantly heard in
this impetuous, burning heart and mind of the loving and
amiable mother.
TO BISHOP TEGNER.
Ansra, {th April, 1842.
A pigeon had one day flown out of the dove-cote and
set out upon a journey to foreign countries. Some sports-
men caught sight of her and exclaimed, “ What kind of
bird is this; whence comes it? We must catch it and
pluck it!” And forthwith they began firing at her; but,
how they managed, they hit only one or two of her feath-
ers. The pigeon continued her gyrations on high, and the
sportsmen, when they had fired at her for some time, be-
came tired and soon lost sight of her.
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