LUCY HUTCHINSON, THE PERFECT WIFE. ' Fortitude is the guard and support of all the other virtues." Locxx. LIKE one of those captivating portraits by Correggio or Murillo, which sometimes glow serenely fair from amid a group of stern and gloomy Salvators and Rembrandts : so, from out the blood-stained memories of the grimly-terrible Tower of London stands, quaintly beautiful, the childish figure of MISTRESS LUCY APSLEY, who was born under the shadow of its roof, January 29, 1620. Sir Allen Apsley, her father-whowas Lieutenant of the Tower at the time of Lucy's birth-could boast of untarnished descent from an old Sussex family ; he was a noble, generous man, and loved by all around him. At the age of forty-eight he had romantically fallen in love with and married Lucy St. John, a beautiful girl of°sixteen ; and, notwith- standing the disproportion of their ages, they lived together in the greatest affection and harmony. 25
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