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

92 MEMOIRS OF
a deep groan, and generally tears not
soon to be pacified; nor could she be
persuaded to take another room, choos-
ing every thing that could put her in
mind of him. She had some hundreds
of his letters, he having been often at
London, absent from her for many
months at a time, and never missed writ-
ing one single post. She had carefully
preserved them all, and set about read-
ing of them, which put her into such
fits of grief and crying, quite sunk and
destroyed her, that we thought it would
kill her.
She one day said, she was ashamed
to be alive, after losing one that had
writ her such letters, and with whom
she could have been contented to live
on the top of a mountain, on bread and
water ; and had no pleasure in any thing,
but for his sake. Haj5py, said she,
had it been for her, if she had con-
stantly read over his letters, and go-