There is above six Thousand Pounds' worth of Furniture come from
London to be put up when the rooms are completely finished; and
then, woe be to the Person who is Housekeeper at Invermay!'

And by the tail of the document, which is torn, I see she goes on
to ask the bereaved family to seek her a new place. It is
extraordinary that people should have been so deceived in so
careless an impostor; that a few sprinkled 'God willings' should
have blinded them to the essence of this venomous letter; and that
they should have been at the pains to bind it in with others (many
of them highly touching) in their memorial of harrowing days. But
the good ladies were without guile and without suspicion; they were
victims marked for the axe, and the religious impostors snuffed up
the wind as they drew near.

I have referred above to my grandmother; it was no slip of the pen:
for by an extraordinary arrangement, in which it is hard not to
suspect the managing hand of a mother, Jean Smith became the wife
of Robert Stevenson. Mrs. Smith had failed in her design to make
her son a minister, and she saw him daily more immersed in business
and worldly ambition. One thing remained that she might do: she
might secure for him a godly wife, that great means of
sanctification; and she had two under her hand, trained by herself,
her dear friends and daughters both in law and love--Jean and
Janet. Jean's complexion was extremely pale, Janet's was florid;
my grandmother's nose was straight, my great-aunt's aquiline; but
by the sound of the voice, not even a son was able to distinguish
one from other. The marriage of a man of twenty-seven and a girl
of twenty who have lived for twelve years as brother and sister, is
difficult to conceive. It took place, however, and thus in 1799