English to Spanish Art/Literary Religion 19th century book about Christian mothers

A few years since, a lady was left a widow, with several little sons. She loved them most devotedly. The affliction which she had experienced in the loss of her husband, ***fixed her affections with more intensity of ardor and sensitiveness upon her children***. They were her only hope. Sad and joyless as she was, she could not endure to punish them—or to deprive them of a single indulgence. Unhappy and misguided woman! Could she expect to escape the consequences of such a course?