Yes , my dear children , and I know something very good and beautiful that is to be given you hereafter ! '' `` O tell us , '' they exclaimed , -- `` tell us what it is ! '' `` Do not ask me , '' replied Hope , putting her finger on her rosy mouth . `` But do not despair , even if it should never happen while you live on this earth . Trust in my promise , for it is true . '' `` We do trust you ! '' cried Epimetheus and Pandora , both in one breath . And so they did ; and not only they , but so has everybody trusted Hope , that has since been alive . And , to tell you the truth , I can not help being glad -- -LRB- though , to be sure , it was an uncommonly naughty thing for her to do -RRB- - but I can not help being glad that our foolish Pandora peeped into the box . No doubt -- no doubt -- the Troubles are still flying about the world , and have increased in multitude , rather than lessened , and are a very ugly set of imps , and carry most venomous stings in their tails . I have felt them already , and expect to feel them more , as I grow older . But then that lovely and lightsome little figure of Hope ! What in the world could we do without her ? Hope spiritualizes the earth ; Hope makes it always new ; and , even in the earth 's best and brightest aspect , Hope shows it to be only the shadow of an infinite bliss hereafter ! TANGLEWOOD PLAY-ROOM . AFTER THE STORY . `` Primrose , '' asked Eustace , pinching her ear , `` how do you like my little Pandora ? Do n't you think her the exact picture of yourself ? But you would not have hesitated half so long about opening the box . '' `` Then I should have been well punished for my naughtiness , '' retorted Primrose , smartly ; `` for the first thing to pop out , after the lid was lifted , would have been Mr. Eustace Bright , in the shape of a Trouble . ''
`` Cousin Eustace , '' said Sweet Fern , `` did the box hold all the trouble that has ever come XXXXX the world ? ''
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