I speak not of myself, nor of what I may suffer.

When we reflect, however, my beloved girl, upon the state of the country, and of the law, as it operates against the liberty and property of Catholics, we must both admit the present impossibility of an elopement without involving you in disgrace.

You know that until some relaxation of the laws affecting marriage between Catholics and Protestants takes place, an union between us is impossible; and this fact it is which would attach disgrace to you, and a want of honor, principle, and gratitude to me.

We should necessarily lead the lives of the guilty, and seek the wildest fastnesses of the mountain solitudes and the oozy caverns of the bleak and solitary hills." "But I care not.

I am willing to endure it all for your sake." "What!--the shame, the misinterpretation, the imputed guilt ?" "Neither care I for shame or imputed guilt, so long as I am innocent, and you safe." "Concealment, my dearest girl, would be impossible.