[Pink and White Tyranny by Harriet Beecher Stowe]@TWC D-Link bookPink and White Tyranny CHAPTER I 16/16
What man is worthy of a refined, delicate woman? I feel my unworthiness of her every hour; but, so help me God, I shall try to be all to her that a husband should; and you, my sister, I know, will help me to make happy the future which she so confidingly trusts to me. "Believe me, dear sister, I never was so much your affectionate brother, "John SEYMOUR. "P.S .-- I forgot to tell you that Lillie remarkably resembles the ivory miniature of our dear sainted mother.
She was very much affected when I told her of it.
I think naturally Lillie has very much such a character as our mother; though circumstances, in her case, have been unfavorable to the development of it." Whether the charming vision was realized; whether the little sovereign now enthroned will be a just and clement one; what immunities and privileges she will allow to her slaves,--is yet to be seen in this story..
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