It seems to me too good to be true.

I think there must be as much as three thousand dollars, all in solid gold.

Some of the coins I don't know the value of; but the greater proportion of them are English sovereigns.

Of course rich people wouldn't think this such a very big sum, but you and I know how far a little can go for poor people." "Yes, indeed," thought Mercy.

"Why, it will make the poor old woman perfectly comfortable all her life: it will give her more than she had from the house." And Mercy laid the letter in her lap and fell into a reverie, thinking how strange it was that this good fortune should have come about by means of an act which had seemed to her cruel on Stephen's part.
She took the letter up again.