He made her crown of motherhood a circlet of shame.

Under other circumstances she might have been an honored wife and happy mother.

And I do think such men wrong their own legitimate children by transmitting to them a weakened moral fibre." "Oh, Marie, you have such an uncomfortable way of putting things.

You make me feel that we have done those things which we ought not to have done, and have left undone those things which we ought to have done." "If it annoys you," said Marie, "I will stop talking." "Oh, no, go on," said Leroy, carelessly; and then he continued more thoughtfully, "I know a number of men who have sent such children North, and manumitted, educated, and left them valuable legacies.

We are all liable to err, and, having done wrong, all we can do is to make reparation." "My dear husband, this is a wrong where reparation is impossible.
Neither wealth nor education can repair the wrong of a dishonored birth.
There are a number of slaves in this section who are servants to their own brothers and sisters; whose fathers have robbed them not simply of liberty but of the right of being well born.