I wish I could be good; but my heart burns, and can't be reconciled, anyhow.

You couldn't in my place,--you can't now, if I tell you all I've got to say.

You don't know the whole yet." "What can be coming now ?" "Well, lately Mas'r has been saying that he was a fool to let me marry off the place; that he hates Mr.Shelby and all his tribe, because they are proud, and hold their heads up above him, and that I've got proud notions from you; and he says he won't let me come here any more, and that I shall take a wife and settle down on his place.

At first he only scolded and grumbled these things; but yesterday he told me that I should take Mina for a wife, and settle down in a cabin with her, or he would sell me down river." "Why--but you were married to _me_, by the minister, as much as if you'd been a white man!" said Eliza, simply.
"Don't you know a slave can't be married?
There is no law in this country for that; I can't hold you for my wife, if he chooses to part us.

That's why I wish I'd never seen you,--why I wish I'd never been born; it would have been better for us both,--it would have been better for this poor child if he had never been born.