ABSTRACT
(Knowing the feelings of my nieces on the subject, I have purposely omitted the matter of the present chapter from that relating to my second stay in the West Indies, although to me it appears to cast not the slightest slur on the memory of their father, whose only fault was that of over-chivalrous trustfulness, whilst it puts in the strongest light their mother's high qualities. My own life is virtually unintelligible without the story).
