But for her children there were no companions except the young slaves of the plantation, and she dreaded the effect of such intercourse upon their lives and characters.
Leroy had always been especially careful to conceal from his children the knowledge of their connection with the negro race.

To Marie this silence was oppressive.
One day she said to him, "I see no other way of finishing the education of these children than by sending them to some Northern school." "I have come," said Leroy, "to the same conclusion.

We had better take Iola and Harry North and make arrangements for them to spend several years in being educated.

Riches take wings to themselves and fly away, but a good education is an investment on which the law can place no attachment.

As there is a possibility of their origin being discovered, I will find a teacher to whom I can confide our story, and upon whom I can enjoin secrecy.