CHAPTER V.
THE TEMPTER IN CHURCH.
Three years had passed since Fanny went to live with Aunt Teresa.

Those three years had a great influence upon her youthful and pliable disposition.

At first Teresa was severe and stony-hearted towards the child; her obstinacy, like a thorny hedge, had to be broken down.

The smallest fault was chastised, every moment of her time had its allotted task, of which she had to give an account, not a single contradiction, not the slightest sulkiness was put up with.

Then, too, she was never able to escape detection, a far-seeing, austere pair of eyes was ever upon her, making falsehood impossible, looking through her very soul, seizing and pruning down every thought as it arose.