The Gilded Age


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closed both to much the same effect:  
"Laura will be queen of America, now, and she will be applauded, and  
honored and petted by the whole nation. Her name will be in every  
one's mouth more than ever, and how they will court her and quote  
her bright speeches. And mine, too, I suppose; though they do that  
more already, than they really seem to deserve. Oh, the world is so  
bright, now, and so cheery; the clouds are all gone, our long  
struggle is ended, our troubles are all over. Nothing can ever  
make us unhappy any more. You dear faithful ones will have the  
reward of your patient waiting now. How father's Wisdom is proven  
at last! And how I repent me, that there have been times when I  
lost faith and said, the blessing he stored up for us a tedious  
generation ago was but a long-drawn curse, a blight upon us all.  
But everything is well, now--we are done with poverty, sad toil,  
weariness and heart-break; all the world is filled with sunshine."  
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