The more merciful and Christian law of other countries, which allows the marriage of the parents to make the children legitimate, has no mercy on _these_ children.

The accident of their father having been married, when he first met with their mother, has made them the outcasts of the whole social community; it has placed them out of the pale of the Civil Law of Europe.

I tell you the hard truth--it is useless to disguise it.

There is no hope, if we look back at the past: there may be hope, if we look on to the future.

The best service which I can now render you is to shorten the period of your suspense.