When he was 19, he eloped with Harriet Westbrook, a girl of 16 whom he scarcely knew But whom he thought he should rescue from a tyrannical family.

• 他十九岁时,和一个名叫哈丽艾特·威斯特勃鲁克的十六岁女孩私奔,他对她并不了解,但他认为他应该把她从专制家庭中拯救出来。