AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY. BY CAPTAIN MARRYAT, R.N. AUTHOR OF "PETER SIMPLE," "FRANK MILDMAY," &c. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, PUBLISHER; GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. 1849. Entered at Stationers' Hall. VALERIE. CHAPTER I. I PUT the papers down on the table as soon as I had finished them, and for a long while was absorbed in meditation. "Is it possible," thought I, "that love disappointed can turn to such fury-can so harden the heart to all better feelings-induce a woman to shorten the days of her parent-to allow a sister to remain in painful error on her death VOL. II. B |