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"Do you remember, Fredrika," said the sister, as they sat in the carriage and drove quickly to the church, "do you remember how you always in the old days expected some knight to carry you off on the road to church?" "I am still expecting it," said old Mamsell Fredrika, and laughed. "I never ride in this carriage without looking out for my knight." Even though they hurried, they came too late.
She resolved to visit her sister Fredrika, whose husband was agent in New York of a famous German line of vessels.
It seemed curious and strange to come out into the park, in glowing sunshine, among living human beings. It was Christmas night, a real Christmas night. The goblins raised the mountain roofs on lofty gold pillars and celebrated the midwinter festival. The brownies danced around the Christmas porridge in new red caps. Not very far away, at the old manor of Årsta, Mamsell Fredrika was lying asleep.
One year, that she might make all fully clear and put the finishing-touch on her life's work. For Death was too prompt for Mamsell Fredrika. There was a storm outside on that New Year's night; there was a storm within her soul. She felt all the agony of life and death coming to a crisis. "Anguish!" she sighed, "anguish!"
Thomas Moore's name was appended to one; Maria Edgeworth's to another; likewise Fredrika Bremer's, Jenny Lind's; also Grace Greenwood's, and I know not whose besides. This is really a pleasant method of enriching one's grounds with memorials of friends, nor is there any harm in making a shrubbery of celebrities.
The active, practical work is done by subordinate societies devoted to particular interests, as, for example, the Fredrika Bremer Association manages a sick relief fund for wage earners, assists students in the universities and technical schools, finds employment for those who need it, conducts schools for trained nurses, keeps a register of women who are capable of performing various duties, and is continually engaged in works of benevolence.
C.S. Henry, D.D., G.P.R. James, Esq., N.P. Willis, Esq., W. Gilmore Simms, Esq., Bayard Taylor, Esq., J.H. Boker, Esq., Alfred B. Street, Esq., R. H. Stoddard, Esq., Miss Fredrika Bremer, Mrs. Sigourney, Mrs. Oakes Smith, Mrs. Embury, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Neal, Mrs. Willard, Mrs.
She journeyed back to Stockholm, and from there Fredrika Bremer wrote to me: "With regard to Jenny Lind as a singer, we are both of us perfectly agreed; she stands as high as any artist of our time can stand; but as yet you do not know her in her full greatness. Speak to her about her art, and you will wonder at the expansion of her mind, and will see her countenance beaming with inspiration.
She had never seen the church so crowded: on the communion table and on the pulpit steps sat people; they stood in the aisles, they thronged in the pews, and outside the whole road was packed with people who could not enter. The sisters, however, found places; for them the crowd moved aside. "Fredrika," said her sister, "look at the people!" And Mamsell Fredrika looked and looked.
Madame de Valentinois, called Diana of Poitiers, whom the King served and in whose name the mock chase was arranged, was not less content. Fredrika Bremer was born at Tuorla Manor-house, near Åbo, in Finland, on the 17th of August, 1801. In 1804 the family removed to Stockholm, and two years later to a large estate at Årsta, some twenty miles from the capital, which was her subsequent home.
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