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that " they belong to no massa," is one of the most 

 contemptuous reproaches that can be cast upon 

 them. Poor creatures, when they happened to 

 hear on Wednesday evening that my carriage was 

 ordered for Montego Bay the next morning, they 

 fancied that I was going away for good and all, 

 and came up to the house in such a hubbub, that 

 my agent was obliged to speak to them, and pacify 

 them with the assurance that I should come back 

 on Friday without fail. 



But to return to Mary Wiggins : she was much 

 too pretty not to obtain her invitation to Corn- 

 wall ; on the contrary, I insisted upon her coming, 

 and bade her tell her husband that I admired his 

 taste very much for having chosen her. I really 

 think that her form and features were the most 

 statue-like that I ever met with : her complexion 

 had no yellow in it, and yet was not brown enough 

 to be dark — it was more of an ash-dove colour 

 than any thing else ; her teeth were admirable, 

 both for colour and shape ; her eyes equally mild 

 and bright ; and her face merely broad enough 

 to give it all possible softness and grandness of 

 contour: her air and countenance would have 

 suited Yarico ; but she reminded me most of Gras- 

 sini in " La Vergine del Sole," only that Mary 

 Wiggins was a thousand times more beautiful, and 

 that, instead of a white robe, she wore a mixed 

 dress 1 of brown, white, and dead yellow, which 

 harmonised excellently well with her complexion ; 



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