When she was told we were all three together, she desired us to walk up.  She arose to receive us, and after answering two or three general questions relating to her health, she addressed herself to us, to the following effect: 

As I may not, said she, see you three gentlemen together again, let me take this opportunity to acknowledge my obligations to you all.  I am inexpressibly obliged to you, Sir, and to you, Sir, [courtesying to the doctor and to Mr. Goddard] for your more than friendly, your paternal care and concern for me.  Humanity in your profession, I dare say, is far from being a rare qualification, because you are gentlemen by your profession:  but so much kindness, so much humanity, did never desolate creature meet with, as I have met with from you both.  But indeed I have always observed, that where a person relies upon Providence, it never fails to raise up a new friend for every old one that falls off.

This gentleman, [bowing to me,] who, some people think, should have been one of the last I should have thought of for my executor—­is, nevertheless, (such is the strange turn that things have taken!) the only one I can choose; and therefore I have chosen him for that charitable office, and he has been so good as to accept of it:  for, rich as I may boast myself to be, I am rather so in right than in fact, at this present.  I repeat, therefore, my humble thanks to you all three, and beg of God to return to you and yours [looking to each] an hundred-fold, the kindness and favour you have shown me; and that it may be in the power of you and of yours, to the end of time, to confer benefits, rather than to be obliged to receive them.  This is a godlike power, gentlemen:  I once rejoiced in it some little degree; and much more in the prospect I had of its being enlarged to me; though I have had the mortification to experience the reverse, and to be obliged almost to every body I have seen or met with:  but all, originally, through my own fault; so I ought to bear the punishment without repining:  and I hope I do.  Forgive these impertinencies:  a grateful heart, that wants the power it wishes for, to express itself suitably to its own impulses, will be at a loss what properly to dictate to the tongue; and yet, unable to restrain its overflowings, will force the tongue to say weak and silly things, rather than appear ungratefully silent.  Once more, then, I thank ye all three for your kindness to me:  and God Almighty make you that amends which at present I cannot!

She retired from us to her closet with her eyes full; and left us looking upon one another.