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Updated: June 23, 2025
I related all I had to tell, and we learnt that we had made acquaintance with her pupil, the Princess Ottilia Wilhelmina Frederika Hedwig, only child of the Prince of Eppenwelzen.
I think Frederika had been overdoing her blandishments, and he had become suspicious; for he is one of the most cunning of men. "'Frederika is behind this business, he said. "'Behind what business, my lord? I asked. "'This sickness of Estella. Bring her to me, ill or well, he replied; 'I want to see her. "He was in no humor to be trifled with; and so I returned to my room to think it over.
Loring must catch their breaths in amazement, when that courteous gentleman hands them for the last new novel sandwiched between "Pique" and "Woodburn" thoughts of such a compass as that! There are sometimes fictitious writers who sweep across the land in a great wave of popularity and then pass away, as Frederika Bremer twenty years ago, and leave no visible impression behind.
The man who had coolly doomed ten million human beings to death was horribly afraid he would have to die himself. He ran back, still clinging to Frederika, to hide in the thick shrubbery of his own garden; there, perhaps, he might find a faithful servant who would get him a boat and take him off to the yacht in safety.
The marriage of the hereditary prince with Frederika Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia added yet another to the many royal alliances of the House of Orange; but, though it raised the prestige of the stadholder's position, it only served to make that position more dependent on the support of the foreigner.
But, as it appears that her grandfather, also, had seen a ghost, and there were evidently legends in existence about the rooms in which the little Frederika saw ghosts, and spots where the presence of human bones caused her sudden shivering, we may be allowed to doubt whether indirect influence was not more powerful than direct repression upon these subjects.
Alcott's "Conversations," held now with Frederika Bremer, now with a band of large-browed Concord children, held forty years ago, and turning perpetually upon the deeper questions of metaphysics and religion; we will even indulge ourselves with a short extract from one of the "Conversations with Children," reported verbatim by an apparently concealed auditress, and eliciting many a cunning bit of infantine wisdom, besides the following finer rhapsody, which Mr.
Then, as the postern clicked and the familiar noises of the city fell on his ear the slapping flat-footed lasses crying "Fried Fish," the sellers of "Hot Oyster Soup," the yelling venders of crout and salad Michael gradually picked up his courage, and we proceeded down the High Street of Thorn to the retired hostel of the White Swan. "Frederika," he cried, as he entered, "are the lads here yet?"
Stories with a purpose are seldom acceptable to the general public, and "Hersha" is the least popular of Frederika Bremer's works, though it is the most carefully and artistically wrought. It is satisfactory to know, however, that its purpose was attained.
"I returned to the Prince, and told him that Estella had said she was too ill to leave her room, and that she refused to obey his summons. Unaccustomed to contradiction, especially in his own house, he grew furious. "'Call the servants, he shouted; 'we will see who is master here! "A few of the men came running; Frederika entered with them; some of the women followed.
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