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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
313
friends in Sweden, she was now even more attractive in
her new-found happiness.
The bliss of the husband and wife was completed by the
birth of a son in June, 1892, and the letters written by the
young mother during the summer of that year are proof
that she had attained a height of human felicity which
almost made her tremble. And indeed the last years of
her life were a luminous progress to ever intenser joys.
First the expectation of maternity, then maternity itself,
beautified and consecrated by the love which shone forth
in her eyes and her smile — by the complete happiness that
caused her mature nature to bud and blossom anew, as if
it had never before enjoyed a springtime. With the cradle
of her child close beside her, she wrote with
ever-increasing delight, interrupting herself every now and then to
attend to her infant, and again resuming her work without
the least impatience. There also stood one who awaited
the result of her work with intense sympathy, ready to
hear her read the freshly-written pages, which she
communicated with the calmness induced by the certainty of
being comprehended. She had trembled at all this
happiness, and she was snatched away just as she had tasted its
full sweetness.
She had been in villeggiatura on the island of Capri, had
returned home and set her house in order for the winter,
and was preparing for a long period of peace and quiet,
during which she would devote herself to literature, and
commence a new romance which she was meditating, to be
entitled "Narrow Horizons."
For the first time for many years she felt at perfect rest
within and without, enriched by new experiences, viewing
the things of life with clearer eyes and able, as she
remarked to a friend, " to write a great book on a broad
basis."
On Sunday, the 16th of October, she wrote a happy letter
to her mother and brother, expressing her delight in her
work, her hope for continued good health.
The very next day her husband was forced to insist on
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