X MEMOIR CF 



the bustle and cares of life. She was not seemingly the 

 worse of these exertions, and in the evening read for a 

 long time with much enjoyment the life of a kindred 

 spirit, Amelia Sieveking. 



On Wednesday, the 17th of June, during her cousin's 

 absence, she set out on an attempt to visit her district. 

 When a few yards beyond the gate she was seized with 

 violent pain between the shoulders ; but so anxious 

 was she to visit the school, and take some little delicacy 

 to a dying man, that she still struggled on, although 

 frequently compelled by breathlessness to stop short, 

 and once obliged to sit down on the Links. Slie reached 

 the school, and was able also to pay a visit in George 

 Square to her dear friend Mrs Sym ; and thus for the 

 last time entered the dwelling so hallowed by its asso- 

 ciations with the beloved pastor and friend whose 

 memory she so tenderly cherished, and the hope of re- 

 union with whom was one of the joyful anticipations 

 of life's last hours. 



After this some days were spent in bed, and the 

 months of July and August passed on in extreme 

 weakness, with frequent distressing seizures of faint- 

 ness and nausea, and, which she dreaded still more, 

 hours of a death-like slumber. For fear of these pain- 

 ful sleeps she often avoided lying down when utterly 



