"Are you in earnest?
Surely you must be jesting." "I am certainly in earnest," answered Eugene Leroy.

"I mean every word I say." "Oh, it can't be possible! Are you mad ?" exclaimed Lorraine.
"Never was saner in my life." "What under heaven could have possessed you to do such a foolish thing?
Where did she come from." "Right here, on this plantation.

But I have educated and manumitted her, and I intend marrying her." "Why, Eugene, it is impossible that you can have an idea of marrying one of your slaves.

Why, man, she is your property, to have and to hold to all intents and purposes.

Are you not satisfied with the power and possession the law gives you ?" "No.