4 LUCY HUTCHINSON. the pitch of ordinary minds." Almost his last thoughts were directed towards her whom he had loved so faithfully and so fondly, who was now hastening back but to hear the sullen waves which dashed against the prison walls, murmuring to her widowed ear the melancholy burden -"Never more ! oh never more !" Of the remainingyears of the heroic PuritanWife - whose love and fortitude throw such a never - fading lustre over her memory-nothing certain is known, for, modest and humble as she was loving, beautiful, and refined, she thought not of recording the events of her widowed life. Owthorpe was sold soon after the death of her husband, by the joint consent of herself and eldest son ; and some years subsequently, in writing an exhortation to a married daughter, she begs that her advice may not be contemned, " though she sees her in adversity." But piety and honour were so interwoven with her fine nature that it is impossible to doubt that, like him whom she had loved and lost, Lucy Hutchinson ended a noble life by a Christian death.
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