Doctor, were you to give me a palace-like home, with velvet carpets to hush my tread, and magnificence to surround my way, I should miss her voice amid all other tones, her presence amid every scene.

Oh, you do not know how hungry my heart is for my mother! Were I to marry you I would carry an aching heart into your home and dim its brightness.

I have resolved never to marry until I have found my mother.

The hope of finding her has colored all my life since I regained my freedom.

It has helped sustain me in the hour of fearful trial.