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逃了性命 The Elders Fled on Horseback
父母諸親得馬得轎的各自逃了性命；奴奴年幼。父母诸亲得马得轿的各自逃了性命；奴奴年幼。
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父母諸親得馬得轎的各自逃了性命；
父母诸亲得马得轿的各自逃了性命；
My father and mother and all our kin, those who could get a horse or get a chair, each fled for their lives;
Both instances of 得 here are dé, plain attainment — those who managed to get hold of one.
奴奴年幼。
奴奴年幼。
and I, your handmaid, was young.
奴奴 is a doubled, softened way for a woman to say "I" — literally "slave," used the way a very deferential English speaker might say "your humble servant," and the doubling makes it younger and smaller still. She uses it twice in this speech.
Nineteen characters and the whole shape of the appeal is in them. Everybody who could save themselves did, and she was too young to be one of them. The family is not blamed, which is a nice touch — blaming them would make the story about a grievance instead of about her.
The word she picks for herself is doing a great deal of work. It is the most self-diminishing pronoun available, doubled to make it smaller, and it is spoken to a monk who has just addressed her as a bodhisattva. Between the two of them they have established that she is nobody and he is a saint, which is a very comfortable arrangement for whichever of them is lying.