Some people say she must have a hoard of money there somewhere, that she cannot have spent even the little she has received.
"I shall move out of the house at once, into the little cottage you liked so much, farther up on the hill.

That is for rent, only fifty dollars a year.

I shall put this house into good repair, run a piazza around it as you suggested, and paint it; and then I think I shall be sure of finding a purchaser.

It can be made a very pretty house by expending a little money on it; and I can sell it for enough more to repay me.

I am sure nobody would buy it as it is." Mercy replied very briefly to this part of Stephen's letter.