THE PERFECT WIFE. gathering up scraps of wit andwisdom, which she would " utter again togreat admiration ofmany," after a. quaint fashion, sufficiently amusing in so young a child. When she was five years old, another girl was born ; and when she was ten, she was called on to suffer the first great grief shehad ever known-the death of her dearly-beloved, indulgent father, which occurred in 1630. Upon the death of her husband, Lady Apsley removed to Richmond, devoting herself exclusively to the education of her two daughters ; and when Lucy was eighteen, being desirous of establishing her, she carried the now beautiful and elegant girl to Wiltshire, her own native place, on amatrimonial treaty, leaving her younger child at the house of Mr. Coleman, a fashionable music teacher, for the sake of improvement in the practice of the lute. Just at this time came to sojourn at Richmond Mr. John Hutchinson, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hutchinson, of Owthorpe, Nottingham- shire ; a young gentleman of twenty-two years of age, of good birth, and learned, amiable, well-bred, and handsome. He was studying to follow the profession of the law, but, the plague desolating London, and the law not proving to his taste, he had retired to Richmond, at . the invitation of Mr. Cole- man, his music-master, to deliberate on a continental tour. Richmond was very gay in . the Spring of 1638, for Prince Charles's Court had attracted the bright butterflies of fashion thither; and, being 27
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