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greenhouse she said "Oh, how beautiful," and went up to 

 her room, never to come down. My mother sat up with her 

 and she bade her bring her minister to visit her, which 

 brought her comfort. She was a very holy and lovely 

 woman. I remember the sweet smile upon her face after 

 her death, and while my mother held her beautiful head I 

 held her feet while she was laid in her coffin. Her eldest 

 son and daughter were with her. She had been a play-fellow 

 of my father, and used to say she always liked Walter 

 Wilson. Her mother and my grandmother were first cousins, 

 Gordons of Dumfriesshire. I only remember one of my 

 grand aunt Gordons of Dumfries. After Uncle Thompson's 

 death Fox Maule and his sister, Patricia, returned to Jenny- 

 mount for John Thompson's wedding, in February, 1824. 

 The crowd at St. Ann's was so great that my mother and I 

 could not get in, and we declined to go to the wedding 

 breakfast. Miss Maule came to Maryville for a few days. 

 She was not present at the wedding, but staid with poor 

 Jane. I do not know who was best man, Robert Thompson, 

 Alex. Wilson or Fox Maule." 



Mrs. Maule's husband was a Ramsey, and had taken the 

 name of Maule with property left by General Maule in 1787. 

 Fox Maule became by inheritance Lord Panmure, and was the 

 much blamed Secretary for War in the Crimean campaign. I 

 think, myself, that his work was conscientious and hard but that 

 he was killed by the system, which Avas about as rotten as could 

 be. Patricia became Lady Patricia Young, and finally Lord 

 Panmure, on the death of the great Indian Viceroy, became 

 Earl of Dalhousie. 



One other memory, because it introduces a name of singular 

 interest. 



"Aunt Mary Gordon's brothers died in the West Indies- 

 Robert, the last survivor, lived until after Gordon Thompson 

 went out to see him in 1828. If Gordon had not gone my 

 brother had intended to go, as Uncle Gordon wrote to ask a 



