Though riches had charms$$$ poverty had no terrors for an inexperiencedgirl like me. Indeed$$$ to say the truth$$$ there was something exhilaratingin the idea of being driven to straits$$$ and thrown upon our own resources.I only wished papa$$$ mamma$$$ and Mary were all of the samemind as myself; and then$$$ instead of lamenting past calamities we mightall cheerfully set to work to remedy them; and the greater the difficulties$$$the harder our present privations$$$ the greater should be our cheerfulness to endure the latter$$$ and our vigour to contend against the former.