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

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sire of her whole life, to live in a
settled way. In several periods of it,
she thought herself happy to be then
fixed to her mind, and with no small
trouble, to make every thing conve-
nient and agreeable to all about her ;
but no sooner was that done, when
either the health of some of her family,
or something else, unhinged her whole
projects, and made it necessary to move,
that she might well say, that here she
had no continuing city. Nor could it be
agreeable, at her time of life, to enter
into a new scene of fatigue and trouble,
by managing so as to make a proper
figure. The hazard of the journey, for
her health, gave us much uneasiness ;
but she begged we would not trouble
ourselves about that, since it was the
same thing to her where she died, if it
should be upon the road, (which, she
said, might possibly happen), as long as
she was doing what she thought right