I acted in opposition to moral principles, which the education of false circumstances had given her no opportunity to form.

I had remorseful thoughts at times, but I am quite sure she was never troubled in that way.

She loved and trusted me entirely.

She knew that the marriage of a white man with one of her race was illegal; and she quietly accepted the fact, as human beings do accept what they are powerless to overcome.

Her daughters attributed her olive complexion to a Spanish origin; and their only idea was, and is, that she was my honored wife, as indeed she was in the inmost recesses of my heart.