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.
Mio padre né mio fratello non avevano divulgata la notizia del mio matrimonio, perché nella prima lettera che scrissi loro, già mi mostravo pentito dopo quanto avevo saputo sulla famiglia di Mason, e prevedendo un orribile avvenire, avevo pregato i miei di tener segreta la mia unione.