Memoirs of the lives and characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie of Jerviswood, and of Lady Grisell Baillie

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went to the window to look after him ;
and so she did that very day he fell ill,
the last time he was abroad, never taking
her eyes from him as long as he was in
sight.
When she lost him, her affliction was so
great, that it threw her into a dangerous
fit of illness ; which with joy she would
have allowed herself to sink under, had
she not thought her life was still ne-
cessary for the happiness of her family ;
as Sir Alexander Murray then threaten-
ed, by long letters writ to us, to give us
a great deal of trouble and disturbance ;
which could not well take place, unless
he outlived her. When she died, she
said to me, " Now, my dear, I can die
in peace, and desire nothing but to be
where your father is." She was always
sure they would meet, and know one
another again, in another world ; and
often said, that without that belief, she
could not support herself.