CHAPTER XLVI.

Prejudice--Its former and present character--An act of resentment--The "Prejudice Bell"--Exclusion of persons of colour from offices of trust and polished society--The dawn of better days--The assertions of some authors contradicted-- Domestic character of the coloured gentry--Hospitality--A day at a coloured gentleman's country-house--Dwellings--Marriages-- Great suppression of illicit connexions within these last few years--Funerals--A scene of riot in former days--Provincialisms