"No, — not at that minute."
"But then we can see the cloud and we know that it is bright."
"And in the other case we don't see the cloud and we know that it is bright. 'We know that all things shall work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose!'"
"But Governor, what are you talking of?"
"That little cloud which is rolling away from Wut-a-qut-o."
"But what cloud is over you, or rolling away from you?"
"I thought the whole land was in shadow to you, Winnie, because I cannot buy it."
"Why no it isn't," said Winnie. "It never looked so bright to me. It never seemed near so beautiful when it was ours."
"The other land never seemed so bright and never will seem so beautiful, as when it is ours. 'Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty; they shall behold the land that is very far off.'"
Winnie smiled a most rested, pleased, gratified smile at him; and turned to another subject.