He applied to Paquette to negotiate what he called a marriage with her.

I am sorry to say that Paquette was induced to enter into this scheme.

He knew full well the sin of making false representations to the family of Agathe, and he knew the misery he was about to bring upon her.
The poor girl had been betrothed to a young man of her own people, and, as is generally the case, the attachment on both sides was very strong.
Among these simple people, who have few subjects of thought or speculation beyond the interests of their daily life, their affections and their animosities form the warp and woof of their character.

All their feelings are intense, from being concentrated on so few objects.
Family relations, particularly with the women, engross the whole amount of their sensibilities.
The marriage connection is a sacred and indissoluble tie.

I have read, in a recent report to the Historical Society of Wisconsin, that, in former times, a temporary marriage between a white man and a Menomonee woman was no uncommon occurrence, and that such an arrangement brought no scandal, I am afraid that if such eases were investigated, a good deal of deceit and misrepresentation would be found to have been added to the other sins of the transaction; and that the woman would be found to have been a victim, instead of a willing participant, in such a connection.
At all events, no system of this kind exists among the Winnebagoes.