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She was a weaver of domestic carpets and counterpanes and of those coarse cotton and woolen cloths of which the common clothing of the plantation negroes are made , and the most of her work came from Brudenell Hall . She used to have to go and fetch the yarn , and then carry home the web . She had a piece of cloth now ready to take home to Mrs. Brudenell 's housekeeper ; but she abhorred the very idea of carrying it there , or of asking for more work . Nora had been ignominiously turned from the house , cruelly driven out into the midnight storm ; that had partly caused her death . And should she , her sister , degrade her womanhood by going again to that house to solicit work , or even to carry back what she had finished , to meet , perhaps , the same insults that had maddened Nora ? No , never ; she would starve and see the child starve first . The web of cloth should stay there until Jim Morris should come along , when she would get him to take it to Brudenell Hall .