To England he felt impelled, he scarcely knew wherefore, save that he looked to us for the information he so ardently desired.
Our family had often been among his waking visions, and this accounts for the agitation I witnessed when I first looked up.

He said he felt he knew me, but he strove to move or speak in vain; he could not utter the only question he wished to frame, and was unable to depart without being convinced if I indeed were Percy Hamilton.
"'And now I have seen you, what have I learnt ?' he said, as he ceased a tale, more of sorrow than of crime.
"'That your mother lives,' I replied, 'that she has never ceased to pray for and love her son, that you can yet be to her a blessing and support.' "Should he wish her sent for, I asked, I knew she would not demand a second summons.

He would not hear of it.
"'Not while I have life enough to seek her.

What, bring her all these miles to me.

My mother, my poor forsaken mother.