Indeed, for her, privation was no hardship.

He was poor in purse, but rich in hope.

Love lit up his life and touched the dull routine of his work with the light of enchantment.

If she made him timid before her, she made him bold towards the rest of the world.

'T was for her that he had had the courage to take that plunge into the boiling sea of life in an unknown city, and it was for her that he had had strength to keep above water, where so many had gone down.
He had faced all for her and had conquered all for her.