But go to the North, and it becomes a different thing.

Your connection with Emily will inevitably become a matter of notoriety, and then you would find it difficult to shake her off there, as you could here, in case you wanted to marry another woman." "Oh, uncle, uncle, how can you speak so indifferently about my doing such an ungenerous act; to characterize it in the very mildest terms.

I feel that Emily is as much my wife in the eyes of God, as if a thousand clergymen had united us.

It is not my fault that we are not legally married; it is the fault of the laws.

My father did not feel that my mother was any more his wife, than I do that Emily is mine." "Hush, hush; that is all nonsense, boy; and, besides, it is paying a very poor compliment to your mother to rank her with your mulatto mistress.