It certainly would not matter much who was rich, and who was
poor, if goodness, and not money, was the thing everybody cared
for. Oh, if the millennium would only begin now! I felt as if it
were hardly fair to me that I should not be here during those
happy thousand years, when I wanted to so much. But I had not
lived even my short life in the world without leading something
of my own faults and perversities; and when I saw that there was
no sign of an approaching millennium in my heart I had to
conclude that it might be a great way off, after all. Yet
the very thought of it brought warmth and illumination to my
dreams by day and by night. It was coming, some time! And the
people who were in heaven would be as glad of it as those who
remained on earth.
That it was a hard world for my mother and her children to live
in at present I could not help seeing. The older members of the
family found occupations by which the domestic burdens were
lifted a little; but, with only the three youngest to clothe and
to keep at school, there was still much more outgo than income,
and my mother's discouragement every day increased.
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