I know that we shall win a clean victory.

Jordan has been a hard road to travel, but I feel that in spite of all our frailties we'll be dumped on the right side of that stream.

After that..." "After that," said Stanton, with something like enthusiasm in his voice, "you'll be the first President of a truly united America, with a power and prestige the greatest since Washington." Lincoln's gaze had left the other's face and was fixed on the blue dusk now gathering in the window.
"I don't know about that," he said.

"When the war's over, I think I'll go home." IV Two years passed and once again it was spring in Washington--about half-past ten of the evening of the 14th of April--Good Friday--the first Eastertide of peace.

The streets had been illuminated for victory, and the gas jets were still blazing, while a young moon, climbing the sky, was dimming their murky yellow with its cold pure light.