“But she needed a husband because Virginia still operated on the code of gentlemen, meaning there were still things beyond her, places she could not go, deals she could not be party to. And so those two needed each other--Maynard an intelligent partner to save his land and estate, Corrine a gentleman to represent her interests.”
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“But what did it mean to find me, a slave, dreaming amid those books?”
“If I have to count on someone else for it, I will find a way to do without it.”
“In the forest, we boys were food.”