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Quote #10
She again regarded me with a surprised stare. "I believe," she said, "I was quite mista’en in my thoughts of you: but there is so mony cheats goes about, you mun forgie me."
"And though," I continued, rather severely, "you wished to turn me from the door, on a night when you should not have shut out a dog."
"Well, it was hard: but what can a body do? I thought more o' th' childer nor of mysel: poor things! They’ve like nobody to tak' care on 'em but me. I'm like to look sharpish."
I maintained a grave silence for some minutes.
"You munnut think too hardly of me," she again remarked.
"But I do think hardly of you," I said; "and I’ll tell you why—not so much because you refused to give me shelter, or regarded me as an impostor, as because you just now made it a species of reproach that I had no "brass," and no house. Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime." (3.3.56-61)
As a child Jane thought poverty absolutely horrible and wouldn’t even consider living with poor relatives even if they were kind and hard-working people. Now, she’s able to teach Hannah, from her own experience, that your moral character and your bank account (or lack of one) are completely different things.