human
You brought us all these troubles, you wretched boy! he would say.
gpt
Don't talk to _me_ of patience. Why don't you pray to your angel for curses, and then we may have some good luck again? As it is, you might as well pray to the Devil himself.
human
It is not so, is it, little mother?
gpt
No, dear heart. They are indeed blessings if we will only recognize them. It we prayed only for happiness, we might think the white angel heard us not; but we pray for blessings, and so he sends us what we pray for, and what he sends is best.