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CHAPTER VI. 



FROM YOUTH TO MANHOOD. 



Younger Sister Pleasant Gallop Younger Brother 

 Pleasant Swim Dreadful Disaster at Sea A Naval Ball 

 Self-confidence Domestic Sorrow New Branch of an 

 Old Acquaintance Career of an Officer A Distressed 

 Mother, her Trials and her Death Pleasant Life A 

 Welcome Visitor Sad Calamity A Trio Duel Plea- 

 sant Body CompanionThe Comets of 1858 and of 1811 

 Description of Astronomers. 



THE reader must not infer from the pe- 

 rusal of the preceding chapter that 

 I was inattentive to domestic occur- 

 rences, or that I was deficient in 

 marking the progress, or rejoicing in the 

 felicity, of any one member of our very 

 happy family. My father then lived in a 



