CHAPTER V
Looking at Charlotte's Three Great Sums from one point of view, you will probably agree that they had a stupendous quality in them. She was plain, and yet she had made up her mind that every body who knew her should like her.
She lived in a practically deserted village, eight miles away from the nearest town or station, and yet she had resolved to be famous.
And finally she was poor, her only income being the twenty-five dollars a month which she received for teaching the school at Marlin Mills—and yet she had determined to marry one of the handsomest and richest young men in the whole United States—whoever and wherever he might be!
But for all the stupendous nature of
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