If you do not like this, I will promise you that, if things turn out well with me in your country, I will send by the next merchants who come here, and buy you from the cazique, and find friends for you there, and place you with them." "You would have wives there," the girl said passionately; "and you would never think any more of me." Roger burst into a loud laugh.
"Why, Malinche, I am only a boy! I am not yet eighteen; and in my country we do not think of taking wives, until we are eight or ten years older than that.

It is a serious thing with us, for each man has only one wife; and it behooves him, therefore, to be very careful in making his choice.

I hope, long before it comes to my time for thinking of marriage, to be back in my own country and among my own people.

If I were to marry here, how could I ever think of going away?
I could not go and leave a wife behind me.

I could not take her away with me, because she would never be happy among a strange people, any more than I should be happy if I lived here.
"No, no, Malinche, there is no fear of my marrying, any more than there is of my forgetting you.