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with you." " "Why did you not go out with me 

 yesterday ? " she asked. " Because I had heard so 

 much of English ladies' riding, that I thought you 

 would clear all the hedges and ditches, and that I 

 should be left behind lying on the ground." I spent 

 many pleasant days with these dear good people ; 

 and no words can express the horror I felt when we 

 heard that they had been barbarously murdered in 

 their bedroom. The eldest son and daughter had 

 been at a ball somewhere near, and on coming home 

 they found that one of the men-servants had dashed 

 out the brains of both their parents with a poker. 

 The motive remains a mystery to this day, for it was 

 not robbery. 



[After three years of married life, my mother returned 

 to her father's house in Burntisland, a widow, with two 

 little boys. The youngest died in childhood. The eldest 

 was Woronzow Greig, barrister-at-law, late Clerk of 

 the Peace for Surrey. He died suddenly in 1865, to 

 the unspeakable sorrow of his family, and the regret of 

 all who knew him. 



I was much out of health after my husband's 

 death, and chiefly occupied with my children, 

 especially with the one I was nursing ; but as 



