72 THE HISTORY OF DAME MITCHELL

qualities, that she seemed only to be sleeping. She was
just entering upon her seventy-ninth year.

By her will, which was in the custody of her solicitor,
she had secured to Mowmouth and her housekeeper an
income of one hundred and twenty pounds, to revert to the
survivor in case one of the legatees should die.

Dame Mitchell retired to her sister’s, whose children
she provided for, one and all. She fixed upon a pretty
little cottage at Richmond as her residence ; it was situated
near the river, with a sloping lawn before it.

Nicholas, reinstated in his old situation, had atoned for
his misconduct by a long course of good behaviour. He
might have risen to a high rank as a cook, but he felt
more inclined to serve the state, and enlisted at the age of