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Would they understand how hard she meant to try ? For a minute she had a desperate impulse to turn and run . Then she heard Mandy 's thin , flatted tones announcing : `` This hyer girl wants to git a job in the mill . Miz Bence , she cai n't come down this morning -- you 'll have to git somebody to tend her looms till noon ; Pap , he 's sick , and she has obliged to wait on him -- so I brung the new gal . '' `` All right , '' said the man she addressed . `` She can wait there ; you go on to your looms . '' Johnnie sat on the bench against the wall where newcomers applying for positions were placed .