The wife and child of a criminal, even where there has been daily association between them, are not condemned, but rather pitied.

No mind, but one cruelly prejudiced, would brand them with his guilt.

Do not punish yourself, then, where others would acquit you.

But, indeed, I need not tell you how our very separation is a safeguard to us--to you especially.

Think of these things; and do not suffer yourself to imagine that there is a bar between you and Bella just now, when I know you love her more than ever." Lucia's head lay upon her mother's knee.