CHAPTER XIX.
AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER.
It was all in vain that Mr.Clifford tried to turn Felicita from her resolution.

Phebe cordially upheld her, and gave her courage to persist against all arguments.

Both of them cared little for poverty--Phebe because she knew it, Felicita because she did not know it.

Felicita had never known a time when money had to be considered; it had come to her pretty much in the same way as the air she breathed and the food she ate, without any care or prevision of her own.

Phebe, on the other hand, knew that she could earn her own living at any time by the work of her strong young arms, and her wants were so few that they could easily be supplied.
It was decided before Phebe went home again, and decided in the face of Mr.Clifford's opposition, that a small house should be taken in London, and partly furnished from the old house at Riversborough, where Felicita would be in closer and easier communication with the publishers.