Sadly, but with a great love, he had gone about the country on his self-imposed task.

To do this work he had given up the business of a saddler, in which he had prospered, had sacrificed his possessions, and renounced the ease that comes with wealth; had courted unheard-of hardships, and wedded himself for better and worse to poverty and unremitting endeavor.

Nothing did he esteem too dear to relinquish for the slave.

Neither wife nor children did he withhold.

Neither the summer's heat nor the winter's cold was able to daunt him or turn him from his object.