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BIOGRAPHY. 65
that her eye-sight had become weaker and weaker. Fre-
drika took her down into the so-called “ Dispensary,” and
gave her a phial, with directions to put every day two or
three drops of the contents into her eyes. A couple of
hours afterwards another patient came and wanted some
drops for toothache; but when Fredrika was going to give
her some tincture of cloves for the teeth, she observed that
it was this which she had given to the peasant woman for
the eyes. Fredrika became alarmed at her mistake, and
came to tell me of it; I wanted her to send a message at
once to the woman with orders not to use the powerful
tincture which had been given to her; but Fredrika said it
would be of no use, because, at the distance where the
woman lived, our messenger could not possibly reach her
until after she had used the tincture twice, and if any harm
came of it, it could not now be prevented. I was aston-
ished at seeing Fredrika, always so anxious to render
assistance to others, take her mistake and the possibility
of some misfortune arising out of it so coolly; but I was
still more astonished when, about a month afterwards, while
I was again staying with my father in town, I received a
letter from Fredrika informing me that the tooth tincture
had perfectly cured the diceated eyes, and that the good
peasant woman had come on the previous day to Arsta and
asked Fredrika for some more of the “blessed drops”
which had done her eyes so much good. |
I had scarcely been a fortnight at Arsta, when my
mother wrote to me to say that my father wished me to
return to town, provided I had had sufficient rest ; and the
following: day, when Hedda came back to the country, I
went to town. At midsummer we were all again assem-
bled at Arsta.
In the beginning of November, 1827, my cousin and
most intimate friend became a widow, after only two years’
wedlock, with the hope of soon becoming a mother. Con-
vinced that I was willing to come to her at any moment,
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