"I can bear life no longer." To Mary and the saints she appealed with a passionate grief that was distressing to witness.

All the efforts of her husband and her children failed to sooth her; and, as often happens in a complication of troubles, she seized upon the most trifling as the text of her complaint.
"I cannot eat corn bread; I have always detested it.

I am hungry.

I am perishing for my chocolate.

And I have no clothing.