Robert Goodbody Journal

that if she was taken from her children she had the confidence to trust that her children would be provided for. I think that on a previous occasion some short time before, on something being proposed about some of her children being sent to school, that she would wish to keep her children with her while she lived. And on another occasion speaking of their sleeping apartment, she said she would like them to sleep near us, while she was with them. We then slept in the large room upstairs. I don't think it was more than two months before her death, that even soon after I went to sleep I dreamed that I saw her in the agonies of death, and suddenly awoke, but of course did not make any remark to her. She was often nervous and low spirited, and a thrush in the garden used to sing early in the morning to the delight, in which she took delight in listening to. But one morning she awoke me remarking that she was afraid the thrush was killed as she missed his singing, and we never heard it after. Soon after this time her breathing was so affected by walking upstairs that the Drs recommended that we should sleep in the drawingroom, which we did perhaps for three weeks before her end, but even then she would have intervals of amendment. When I took her out for a few times before her death her breathing would be so affected by exertion that I used to carry her from the house and put her into the Gig. I think it was about three weeks before her death, that an offer was made to me by John Pim to let me the Brusna Mills. She fully approved of it, and Anthony Pim and I went there, John Pim coming with us from Tullamore. But when we got there, John Moore altho'he had agreed to do it previously, would not give up possession, and when we got home, when I told her she was

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