CHAPTER XV.
THE WEB BROKEN.
"Poverty," says Beranger, "is always superstitious." So indeed is human extremity of any sort.

Julia's healthy constitution had resisted the threatened illness, the feverishness had gone with the headache.

She felt now only one thing: she must have a friend.

But the hard piousness of Cynthy Ann's face had never attracted her sympathy.

It had always seemed to her that Cynthy disapproved of her affection quite as much as her mother did.