Historical memoirs of Rob Roy and the Clan Macgregor

NOTICES OF LADY GRANGE. 3 I 7
inquiries she made, no satisfactory answers were
given.
In the course of the following summer, how-
ever, her sorrows were greatly alleviated by
the arrival of the clergyman and his wife, who
for some time had been absent from the island.
From the kindness of this couple she expe-
rienced much seasonable relief, for, in all pro-
bability she would have died of want, had they
not appeared. They procured a girl to attend
her, and their society and conversation tended
to soften the melancholy that long had preyed
upon her mind, which was now in a condition
approaching to imbecility.
The minister was a devout and serious man,
who, in the duties of his office, as well as in
acts of humanity, paid her great attention, and
she seemed to feel the full influence of his in-
struction.
She made frequent applications to him for
writing materials ; but these he was obliged
to refuse her, as he was forbidden to allow her
such indulgence ; she, however, prevailed upon
him to write an account of her history and suf-
ferings, to her own dictation, but she omitted
many incidents, partly from a loss of memory,
and partly from a wish to conceal them.