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.
Én már a legelső levelemben, amelyben az esküvőről értesítettem őket, lelkükre kötöttem, hogy tartsák titokban házasságomat. Már akkor, túl az első tapasztalatokon, s közelebbről megismerve a családi körülményeket, láttam, hogy mi vár rám, és csakhamar apám is eleget hallott ahhoz, hogy tudja: milyen élettársat választott számomra.