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

LADY GRISELL BA1LL1E. 103
am sorry that we shall see our good
old friend no more. I am sorry that
we shall partake no more in the society
of that hospitality, that benevolence,
that good humour, that good sense,
that cheerful dignity, the result of so
many virtues, which were so amiable
in her, and what did so much honour
to humanity : and I am very sorry for
what those must suffer at present,
whom she had bred up to have af-
fections, and who had so justly so
much for her."
One might a little judge of what es-
teem she was in with all that knew her,
from the letters we received from all
quarters, and the loss many had in
losing her, not only as a friend, but
benefactor. She had been ill of a cold
that was epidemical, but was down stairs
the week before she died ; was confined
to her bed but a few days, and had her
senses entire to the last. Two days be-