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

104 MEMOIRS OF
fore she died, we were all in the room :
she said, " My dears, read the last
chapter of the Proverbs; you know
what it is." To have her grandsons
happily married, lay near her heart ;
and I imagine it was with regard to
that, she said it. I think it a very
strong picture of herself; and if ever
any deserved to have it said of them,
she does. The next day, she called me ;
gave directions about some few things ;
said she wished to be carried home to lie
by my father, but that perhaps it might
be too much trouble and inconvenience
to us at that season, therefore left it
to me to do as I pleased ; but that, in
a black purse in her cabinet, I would
find money sufficient to do it, which she
had kept by her for that use, that when-
ever it happened, it might not straiten
us. She added, " I have now no more
to say or do ;" tenderly embraced me,