CHAPTER XLV.

A chapter on colour--Gradual removes from the negroes--Middle classes--Personal appearance--Devotions at their mirrors--Style of dress--Chapel belles--Passion for dress--Home and home scenes--The young men--Extreme officiousness--Higher classes of colour--Coloured Hebes--The chapel tea-party--Gastronomy and speeches--Wesleyan bazaar, and lunch-table--Gastronomic relics