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A New England Girlhood, Outlined from Memory (Beverly, MA)
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Lucy Larcom
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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.
My
eldest
brother
had
gone
to
sea
with
a
relative
who
was
master
of
a
merchant
vessel
in
the
South
American
trade.
His
inclination
led
him
that
way;
it
seemed
to
open
before
him
a
prospect
of
profitable
business,
and
my
mother
looked
upon
him
as
her
future
stay
and
support.
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