mouth wooed her

"Then I should like to ask you about it - about love and what it meant to you. Perhaps then your eyes will hold more than beauty, perhaps they will be stern and wise and they will answer: poverty has played so great a part in my life that it has choked love. Now I neither cry nor laugh. I have never been able to struggle for love, because the struggle for bread has consumed all my strength.'

- Walter Scheonstedt, The Girl from the River Barge