This tree's roots can go as deep as twenty metres underground.

Luxury was abolished. People lived in honorable marriage. All the women were chaste, faithful, and far from wantoners.

antumbra

You will wonder how I have escaped the manacles that so long bound me. I cannot explain all now; but thus much I am permitted to say, that they were riveted by certain charms: and I cannot be assured of my freedom till I myself return them to him from whom they came—to him who has so long been the lord of my affections and master of my mind.