You won't be able to sustain your old connections with your Northern friends--you'll find that they will cut you dead." "I've looked at it well, uncle John.

I've counted the cost, and have made up my mind to meet with many disagreeable things.

If my old friends choose to turn their backs on me because my wife happens to belong to an oppressed race, that is not my fault.

I don't feel that I have committed any sin by making the choice I have; and so their conduct or opinions won't influence my happiness much." "Listen to me, Clary, for a moment," rejoined the old gentleman.

"As long as you live here in Georgia you can sustain your present connection with impunity, and if you should ever want to break it off, you could do so by sending her and the children away; it would be no more than other men have done, and are doing every day.