Reading Garrison's Letters

April 18, 1836

Garrison has had to delay leaving Boston to be with Helen in Connecticut.  “Do you begin to distrust me?  Do I begin to slight you?  Nay — you think all the better of me –I love you the more dearly: — you, because I am intent upon discharging the duties which I owe to God and man — I, because your acquiescence is so cheerfully and sweetly given, painful though a separation is to us both.  ”  ¹

¹ Letters of William Lloyd Garrison – Volumes I – VI