Your noble heart, in its sober moments will sanction my choice, I would not have died if I could have lived without proving false to my race.

Had I lived, my love and your agony, which I cannot bear, would have made me prove false to every vow.
"Dear Bernard, I have a favor to ask of you.

Secure the book of which I spoke to you.

Study the question of the intermingling of the races.

If miscegenation is in reality destroying us, dedicate your soul to the work of separating the white and colored races.