The love of man and wife is a voluntary compact in which the one whoproves weak is guilty only of perfidy; but when the wife is a mother herduty is a higher one, since nature has intrusted her with a race.
L'amour de l'homme et de la femme est un pacte volontaire où celui quifaiblit n'est coupable que de perfidie; mais quand la femme est devenuemère, son devoir a grandi puisque la nature lui confie une race.