i smile to think on sylvia rossio , my good and dear but generally quite shy and quiet friend and fellow captive , as well as fellow serving girl at one time , joyously meeting up with her own true love henry hoffman there in new york harbor and then riding with him up to boston to bring the glad tidings of the deliverance from slavery of the girls of the lawson peabody to the once bereft and grief-stricken parents and friends .