You speak of your mother and the land with affection.

"You have no right to speak of my mother. "

He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love.

I heard my father when he spoke of my mother.

"We will not speak of your mother to you, Susan," her grandmother said.

He'd never spoken of his mother or his family again.

She'd never heard him speak so oddly of her mother.

She almost never spoke of her mother- just a word here and there.

Did you ever hear him speak of my mother?

After that, no one in their house had spoken of his mother again.