There was ten times as much in it as ever Letty had had at once.

But she never knew what was in it.

She rose with instant resolve.

All the woman in her waked at once.

She felt that a moment was come when she must be resolute, or lose her hold on life.
"Cousin Godfrey," she said, in a tone he scarcely recognized as hers--it frightened him as if it came from a sepulchre--"if you do not take that purse away, I will throw it in the fire without opening it! If my husband can not give me enough to eat, I can starve as well as another.