For Selena swooped down on her parents the next day . Such a storm did she brew up that Mattie was forbidden to speak to Jed again . Selena herself gave Jed a piece of her mind . Jed usually was not afflicted with undue sensitiveness . But he had some slumbering pride at the basis of his character and it was very stubborn when roused . Selena roused it . Jed vowed he would never creep and crawl at the feet of the Adamses , and he went west forthwith , determined , as aforesaid , to make his fortune and hurl Selena 's scorn back in her face . And now he had come home , driving a tin-wagon . Mattie smiled to think of it . She bore Jed no ill will for his failure . She felt sorry for him and inclined to think that fate had used him hardly -- fate and Selena together . Mattie had never had another beau . People thought she was engaged to Jed Crane until her time for beaus went by . Mattie did not mind ; she had never liked anybody so well as Jed . To be sure , she had not thought of him for years . It was strange he should come back like this -- `` romantic , '' as he said himself . Mattie 's reverie was interrupted by Selena . Angular , pale-eyed Mrs. Ford was as unlike the plump , rosy Mattie as a sister could be . Perhaps her chronic curiosity , which would not let her rest , was accountable for her excessive leanness . `` Who was that pedlar that was here this afternoon , Mattie ? ''
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