Society would wink at the transgression, even if after she had become the mother of my children I should cast her off and send her and them to the auction block." "Men," replied Lorraine, "would merely shrug their shoulders; women would say you had been sowing your wild oats.

Your money, like charity, would cover a multitude of faults." "But if I make her my lawful wife and recognize her children as my legitimate heirs, I subject myself to social ostracism and a senseless persecution.

We Americans boast of freedom, and yet here is a woman whom I love as I never loved any other human being, but both law and public opinion debar me from following the inclination of my heart.

She is beautiful, faithful, and pure, and yet all that society will tolerate is what I would scorn to do." "But has not society the right to guard the purity of its blood by the rigid exclusion of an alien race ?" "Excluding it! How ?" asked Eugene.
"By debarring it from social intercourse." "Perhaps it has," continued Eugene, "but should not society have a greater ban for those who, by consorting with an alien race, rob their offspring of a right to their names and to an inheritance in their property, and who fix their social status among an enslaved and outcast race?
Don't eye me so curiously; I am not losing my senses." "I think you have done that already," said Lorraine.

"Don't you know that if she is as fair as a lily, beautiful as a houri, and chaste as ice, that still she is a negro ?" "Oh, come now; she isn't much of a negro." "It doesn't matter, however.