1 The daughter of this woman married a slave.
2 He took me with him to the West Indies, set me free, and married me.
3 It was during the happy period of his employment in the factory that George had seen and married his wife.
4 I wish, now, I'd insisted on it, and married Mammy to somebody else; but I was foolish and indulgent, and didn't want to insist.
5 You see, when I was married and came to live here, of course, I had to bring her with me, and her husband my father couldn't spare.
6 I thought, if he loved me as he said he did, and if I was what he seemed to think I was, he would be willing to marry me and set me free.
7 She had been married to a bright and talented young mulatto man, who was a slave on a neighboring estate, and bore the name of George Harris.
8 When I found she loved me, when I married her, I scarcely could believe I was alive, I was so happy; and, sir, she is as good as she is beautiful.
9 You see, I brought my own property and servants into the connection, when I married St. Clare, and I am legally entitled to manage them my own way.
10 She won't marry anybody else; and I do believe, now, though she knows how necessary she is to me, and how feeble my health is, she would go back to her husband tomorrow, if she only could.
11 The married couple were enjoying their honeymoon, and entertaining a brilliant circle of friends in their splendid villa, near Lake Pontchartrain, when, one day, a letter was brought to him in that well-remembered writing.
12 Augustine was glad in his heart that he had married so undiscerning a woman; but as the glosses and civilities of the honeymoon wore away, he discovered that a beautiful young woman, who has lived all her life to be caressed and waited on, might prove quite a hard mistress in domestic life.
13 Well, lately Mas'r has been saying that he was a fool to let me marry off the place; that he hates Mr. Shelby and all his tribe, because they are proud, and hold their heads up above him, and that I've got proud notions from you; and he says he won't let me come here any more, and that I shall take a wife and settle down on his place.