liliukolani

Updated: May 19, 2025

And I sez, speakin' the name Liliukolani well as I could, "I also am glad to hail the Queen of the Sandwich Islands." That tickled her, and she sez: "I was not deceived in you; you are one who can recognize royalty if the cloud of adversity and trouble is wreathin' it in its black folds." And I sez, "Clouds often covers the sun and moon, but the light is there jest the same."

Marietta Holley - Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife