The post-colonial promise that sustained her in it had gone badly awry.
"May their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the Gospel to the whole world," he added.
The Mount sustained her in that crucial, creative period, until she sold it in 1911, after her divorce.
She studied piano, but at 17 she realized that her talents would not sustain her in a professional career.
But as the novel progresses and Cornelia endures the first deep reversals in her own life, the complex bond between them sustains her in unexpected ways.
Tucker's love and commitment, Josephine's grace and Louisa's spirit sustained her in life and will continue to bear witness to her memory.
Throughout, Prix's thoughts of being a fireworks artist sustain her, in her room, in a jail cell, in the streets.
Mrs. Clinton acknowledged that faith, although it had sustained her in her very public marital trials, did not always survive "being tested in cruel and tragic ways".
"May the witness of these new saints … speak today to the whole church, and may their intercession strengthen and sustain her in her mission to proclaim the gospel to the whole world," he said.
"But it's really a film about identity and old age, and facing oblivion, and can this old lady let go of the one thing which is now imagined, but that sustains her in her sense of self?
