I have every physical comfort, and yet my heart is often heavy--oh, so very heavy; I know I am envied by many for my fine establishment; yet how joyfully would I give it all up and accept the meanest living for the children's freedom--and your love." "But, Emily, granted we should remove to the North, you would find annoyances there as well as here.

There is a great deal of prejudice existing there against people of colour, which, often exposes them to great inconveniences." "Yes, dear, I know all that; I should expect that.

But then on the other hand, remember what George said respecting the coloured people themselves; what a pleasant social circle they form, and how intelligent many of them are! Oh, Garie, how I have longed for friends!--we have visitors now and then, but none that I can call friends.

The gentlemen who come to see you occasionally are polite to me, but, under existing circumstances, I feel that they cannot entertain for me the respect I think I deserve.

I know they look down upon and despise me because I'm a coloured woman.