A man who goes into battle with no one but himself to think of may take joy in the strife; for he knows that, if he falls, it makes no very great matter to anyone.

But if he has a wife hard by, who will be left a widow if he is slain, it must be ever present to him while he is fighting; and though he may not fight less stoutly, it must cause him grievous anxiety, and take away the pleasure of fighting." "You have already told us that the white men are good husbands," the queen said.
"I do not know that they are in any way better, in that respect, than your own people, Queen Maclutha.

There are good and bad--men who treat their wives well, and men who neglect them." "But you told us that they only had one wife, each," she said; "and that even kings are kept to this rule, as well as their humblest subjects." "That is so," Roger said.

"One man one wife, whatever his rank.
There is no occasion for the palaces of our king to be as extensive as those of Montezuma." "And if these officers who have married here were to return home, and leave their wives behind them, could they not marry again ?" "No," Roger said; "as the ladies have become Christians, and been married according to the rites of the Church, they could not be lawfully set aside." "And you have no wife in England, Roger Hawkshaw ?" Cacama asked.
Roger laughed merrily.
"Why, I was but a boy when I left home; and as far as marriage goes, I am but a boy still.

We consider it young enough, if we take a wife at five and twenty; and I lack six years of that, yet." "You are a man," Cacama said gravely.