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Iola Leroy

CHAPTER X
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Instead, he was going to Ohio to give them their freedom, and make provision for their future." "What a wrong!" said Marie.
"Who was wronged ?" said Leroy, in astonishment.
"Every one in the whole transaction," answered Marie.

"Your friend wronged himself by sinning against his own soul.

He wronged his wife by arousing her hatred and jealousy through his unfaithfulness.

He wronged those children by giving them the _status_ of slaves and outcasts.

He wronged their mother by imposing upon her the burdens and cares of maternity without the rights and privileges of a wife.


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