"I acted precisely on this suggestion. My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance; because, in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union--having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences, and, from the family character and constitution, seeing a hideous future opening to me--I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter-in-law.
«J'agis ainsi; mon père et mon frère n'avaient pas parlé de mon mariage à leurs connaissances, parce que, dans la première lettre où je leur appris mon union, je commençais déjà à en être dégoûté; d'après tout ce que j'avais su de la famille de Berthe Mason, je voyais un affreux avenir devant moi, et je suppliai mon père et mon frère de garder le secret.