Then it is strange that I should get here and awake from an illness so serious in the house of Mrs.Spurgeon, whose granddaughter Sarah is going to marry Reverdy ...

one never knows whether to attribute these things to Providence or to the accidents of life....

Perhaps you were right never to tell me about my father's marriage to the octoroon girl; but you must have known that I would find it out on arriving here.

It has caused me much thought, if not disturbance of mind; but I have worked out my problems, perhaps impulsively, but still to my own satisfaction.

Zoe is about the color of an Indian from Bombay.