This novel is set in a Chinese village before World War One. Here "she" refers to the newly-wedded wife of the protagonist Wang Lung's
And she took their ragged clothes and with thread she herself spun on a bamboo spindle from a was of cotton she mended and contrived to cover the rents in their winter clothes. <The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck> I'd like to know "their ragged clothes" is implied after "mended." Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
" No. the rents'.
— Mister Micawber
" No.
the rents'.
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