But he was brave enough to face the consequences of his alliance, and marry the woman who was the choice of his heart, and on whom his affections were centred.
After Leroy had left the room, Marie sat awhile thinking of the wonderful change that had come over her.

Instead of being a lonely slave girl, with the fatal dower of beauty, liable to be bought and sold, exchanged, and bartered, she was to be the wife of a wealthy planter; a man in whose honor she could confide, and on whose love she could lean.
Very interesting and pleasant were the commencement exercises in which Marie bore an important part.

To enlist sympathy for her enslaved race, and appear to advantage before Leroy, had aroused all of her energies.
The stimulus of hope, the manly love which was environing her life, brightened her eye and lit up the wonderful beauty of her countenance.
During her stay in the North she had constantly been brought in contact with anti-slavery people.

She was not aware that there was so much kindness among the white people of the country until she had tested it in the North.

From the anti-slavery people in private life she had learned some of the noblest lessons of freedom and justice, and had become imbued with their sentiments.