ncements of all possible things--inquiries after thieves and
stolen pieces of clothing, etc., which, to the worshippers, and
especially to the partakers of the sacrament, are so unspeakably
painful, and in cold winter days are enough to freeze all devotion.

AN AFTER-WORD.

Friendly reader! Now that thou hast arrived at a happy conclusion of the
foregoing contentions, thou perhaps dost not dream that now a contest
exists between--thee and--me! But it will infallibly be so, if thou, as
often has happened before, wilt call that a Novel which I have called
Sketches, and which have no pretension to the severe connexion and
development of the novel; although, to be sure, they be connected. If
thou wilt, on the contrary, regard them--for example--as blades of
grass, or as flowers upon a meadow molehill, which wave in the wind upon
their several stalks, but which have their roots in the same soil, and
unfold themselves in the light of one common sun; behold then, we
conclude in peace, and I wish only that they may whisper to thy heart
some friendly word, respecting the point of light which may be found in
every circumstance, in every portion of existence,--respecting the
spring, which, for noble souls, sooner or later, reveals itself from its
wintry concealment. To the Norwegian authors, who in the mountain
journey, or in my wandering among the legends of the country, were my
guides, I here offer my thanks; and also from the depth of my heart to
many benevolent and amiable people, whom I have become acquainted with
in that beautiful country, in whose woods one breathes so fresh and
free, in whose hospitable bosom I also once found a dear and peaceful
home.

THE AUTHORESS.

FOOTNOTES:

[20] Geijer.

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