Do you think I could stay here to become nothing to you? Do you think because I am poor , and obscrue, and plain that I am soulless, and heartless? I have as much soul as you and fully as much heart. And if God gifted me beauty and wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. I am not talking to you now through the medium of custom, conventionalities, nor even of mortal flesh: it is my spirit that addresses your spirit; just as if both had passed through the grave, and we stood at God’s feet, equal - as we are!