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Maybe she should ask for more time She was supposed to be bargaining”I might agree to your terms, Rhett, but not your timingIf I pack up the day after all the parties are done, everybody will noticeYou’ll be going back to the plantation after the BallIt would make sense if I started thinking about Atlanta [...]

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“Bless their interfering old hearts,” he chuckled Come with me, Scarlett, you)ll have to tell Mama “Oh, Rhett, I couldn’t Absurd, but the most serious matters always areAnd take that look of daughterly concern off your faceYou don’t give a damn what happens to my mother as long as the party invitations keep arriving, and [...]

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“That’s cruel!” Scarlett exclaimed”The boy will get it backNow let’s get to supper before all the oysters are gone For once in your life, Scarlett, you’re going to have more food than you can possibly eat Even ladies gorge themselvesThe Season is over, and it’s almost Lent It was shortly after two when the doors [...]

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How could anyone worry about some silly old tablecloth at a time like this? “I’m sorry, Auntie,” she managed to say”That’s all right, dearIt’s just that you’re practically putting a hole through it, and we have so few of our nice things left Eulalie’s voice faded mournfullyScarlett clenched her teethShe wanted to scream What did [...]

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This whole funeral is downright shabby, Mammy would have hated itThat black preacher is going on and on, and he didn’t even know her, I’ll betMammy wouldn’t give the time of day to the likes of him, she was a Roman Catholic, everybody in the Robillard house was, except Grandfather, and he didn’t have much [...]

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Scarlett had never seen such traffic snarls, not even at Five PointsIt was because of the Galway Races, said ColumBefore Scarlett could remember what had happened to her the previous year in Galway, he quickly added details Steeplechase and flat racing, five days’ worth every JulyIt meant that the militia and constabulary were too busy [...]

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The terror of being presented was behind her, and she was a success! “I guess I won’t mind now that I spent last ear’s wheat crop on all those new clothesLet’s go shopping today d spend this year’s crop “You won’t have timeEleven gentlemen, including the Gentlean Usher, have written to ask permission to call [...]

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“Dijon is a great little mudder “Do you fancy anything, Scarlett?” said a smooth voice in her ear”I haven’t decided yet, Luke When the riders came onto the track, Scarlett cheered and applauded with the restShe agreed twenty times with John Morland that even the naked eye could pick out Dijon as the handsomest horse [...]

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Whatever Billy said was law to CatIt was lucky the boy was so good natured; Cat’s adoration could have been a terrible trialInstead he was as patient as a saintBilly had inherited his father’s “way with horses he was teaching Cat to be an expert rider, far beyond anything that Scarlett could have doneAs soon [...]

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Scarlett lowered herself onto a small chairIf only Rhett were there to join the tea partyBut he wasn’t, and he never would be, and she had to accept itHe would have tea parties with his other child, his other children-by AnneScarlett resisted the impulse to grab Cat in her arms”I’d like two lumps of sugar, [...]

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