But no; this would not do.
"Let them fire," said he, waving his hand.

"Christina is a soldier's daughter, and must learn to bear the noise of cannon." So the captain uttered the word of command, and immediately there was a terrible peal of thunder from the cannon, and such a gush of smoke that it enveloped the whole fortress in its volumes.

But, amid all the din and confusion, Christina was seen clapping her little hands and laughing in an ecstasy of delight.

Probably nothing ever pleased her father so much as to see that his daughter promised to be fearless as himself.

He determined to educate her exactly as if she had been a boy, and to teach her all the knowledge needful to the ruler of a kingdom and the commander of an army.
But Gustavus should have remembered that Providence had created her to be a woman, and that it was not for him to make a man of her.
However, the king derived great happiness from his beloved Christina.
It must have been a pleasant sight to see the powerful monarch of Sweden playing in some magnificent hall of the palace with his merry little girl.