... food, or starve! And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman." (39) Her financial tribulations can't be accounted solely to the fact that she has no money; rather, one must also note that at one point, she had large sums of money ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School