THE PERFECT WIFE. to double expense, providing for her husband and for herself and children separately. Upon his removal, in 1664, the Colonel was soon seized with a dangerous ague. Lucy used every entreaty to be permitted to reside with him in his damp, drearyprison; but, being peremptorily refused, she took lodgings for herself and her son and daughter at Deal, whence, with incredible fatigue, they daily walked to Sandown, a distance of more than a mile, along a rugged beach. Despairing at last of being allowed to join him, she hired a house in the vicinity, with the intention of removing thither with her family. With the view of making arrangements for this purpose, she reluctantlyprepared, in the autumn, to go with her son to Owthorpe. Her ill-presaging heart almost failed her on her departure ; and even her husband, hitherto hopeful of life and liberty, exclaimed as he clasped her to his breast, "Now I myself begin to be loth to part with thee." Through the strenuous exertions of Sir Allen, some slight indulgences had been granted to the prisoner ; but they came too late. The inhuman treatment to which he had been subjected brought on a fever which fatally seized him a few days after Lucy's departure. To his daughter, Barbara, and his brother George, on the 11th of September, 1664, the day of his death, he left messages for those he loved ; and regarding his wife he said- " Let her, as she is above other women, show her- self on this occasion a good Christian, and above. 47
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