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The room was empty and she sprang back to the door, only to find it securely locked, and to hear Jud Carpenter's jeers from without. She ran to the two small windows. They were high and looked out over a ravine. She did not utter a word. Reared as she had been among the Conways, she was too well bred to act the coward, and beg and plead in undignified tones for relief.
When I met either of the brothers, we exchanged no greetings passed without looking at each other and the 'family feud' between the Davenants and the Conways was not even alluded to; it had become an old story, and lost its interest. "Such was the condition of things such the attitude which I occupied toward the two brothers when the event, which I am about to relate, took place.
"I've got a home for us, an' whilst old mammy can take in washin' you'll not wuck yo' life out with these people." Jud broke in harshly: "Come, ole 'oman, you put that child down. You've got nothin' to support her with." She turned on him quickly: "I've got mo' silver tied up in ole socks that the Conways give me in slavery days when they had it by the bushel, than sech as you ever seed.
There were the Martins, down there in Derby; the Squire and his lady of Ashenden Hall; the Conways of Matlock; and the rest these had all changed; and though he did not respect them for it, yet the truth was that they were not yet stricken by thunderbolts or eaten by the plague.
He said that she was a legacy from his grandmother, and too innocent and pretty to be cast about among strange servants in all the places where the Conways visited; and that he would not have consented to the transfer, but that, under their present circumstances, it was impossible to keep her. If any evil came to her, it would be another miserable effect of his own temper.
Then a man, with the long blue deadly barrel of the Colt forty-four, pushed his way through them his face pale, his fine mouth set firm and close, and the splendid courage of many generations of Conways shining in his eyes. "Stand back! " and he said it in the old commanding way the old way which courage has ever had in the crises of the world. "O Marse Ned! I knowed you'd come!"
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