I will proclaim it in the face of earth and heaven.

I will proclaim it till my dying day.

How dare you come to me with slanders so vile, false, unprincipled woman ?' "She recoiled a few steps from me, and held up her deprecating hands.
"'Have pity upon me, for I am very wretched,' she cried; 'were it not for my child I would die in silence and despair, rather than rouse you from your fatal dream, but I cannot see him robbed of his rights.

I cannot see another usurping the name and place he was born to fill.
Madam,' continued she, discarding her supplicating tone, and speaking with dignity and force, 'I am no false, unprincipled woman, inventing tales which I cannot corroborate.

I am a wife, as pure in heart, as upright in purpose as you can be,--a mother as tender.