I was always thinking that I would do it at some future time.

But marriage with a quadroon would have been void, according to the laws of Louisiana; and, being immersed in business, I never seemed to find time to take her abroad.

When one has taken the first wrong step, it becomes dangerously easy to go on in the same path.

A man's standing here is not injured by such irregular connections; and my faithful, loving Eulalia meekly accepted her situation as a portion of her inherited destiny.

Mine was the fault, not hers; for I was free to do as I pleased, and she never had been.