"It will be your fault if they are your support when you are your own master."
"You love an idea better than you love a man who would die for you!"
"I love manliness and the sense of right, which is called duty, better than I love a man who is blind to the first impulse of real manhood—"
"Would you ask a Jew to give up his synagogue to gain your hand?"
"The synagogue is the temple of a creed as divine as my own, and the faith of the man I loved would never swerve me in accepting or refusing him."
"We of the South believe slavery a divine institution—that is, first established by the fathers!"
"The tribes in the Fiji Islands believe man-eating an ordinance of the gods!"
"Well, this sort of discussion leads to nothing," Vincent said, ruefully. "The world is well lost for the woman one loves, when I come to you shorn of my world!"
"Ah! then, Vincent, you will find another!"
He drew her hand from the clinging vines and kissed it.