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You will be presented to him and to Vicereine in the Throne Room Montague painted a picture for Scarlett of pomp and splendor beyond anything she’d heard ofIt made Charleston’s Saint Cecilia sound like nothing at And it made Scarlett want success in Dublin society with all heartThat would put Rhett Butler in his placeHe [...]

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He walked slowly to hold Scarlett’s chair for her “What lovely manners you have, Wade,” Suellen cooed “Good morning, ScarlettAren’t you proud of your young gentleman?” Scarlett looked blankly at Suellen, then at WadeGood heavens, he was just a child, what on earth was Suellen being so simpering sweet about? The way she was carrying [...]

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But you couldn’t leave well enough aloneYou had to go make a spectacle of yourself at Melanie’s very gravesideThrowing your arms around her husband, hauling him away from his dead wife, who a lot of people thought close to a saint He held up one hand”I know what you’re about to say, so don’t bother [...]

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Accompanied by everyone who worked and lived in Ballyhara, Scarlett stood in the center of a big field and, after saying a prayer for the success of the crops, sank a spade into the earth, lifted and turned the first sodNow the year could begin After the feast of applecake-and milk, of course, because February [...]

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Friends, ultimately marriage-she will have only to I will never harm her; she’s too valuable to me as a model for son to followCan you deny all that to her because your loweryearning for romance is unfulfilled? I don’t think so “Cat doesn’t need your precious titles and ‘best of everything,’ Milord, and neither do [...]

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Never mind how she looks to you, Suellen ’11 never tell your private troubles to anybodyShe don’t want folks talking loose about the O’Haras any more than you do Scarlet relaxed a littleShe trusted Will completely His word was more certain than money in the bankAnd he was wise, tooShe’d never known Will to be [...]

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“Aunt Pitty is resting,” she saidHaving the vapors is more like it, Scarlett said to herself, but this time she held her tongueShe wasn’t mad at PittypatBesides, she’d better get on with what she’d come for She wanted to be gone before Ashley came home”I don’t know if you’re aware of it, India, but Melly [...]

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“The bad dreams are all over now, ScarlettThe doctor said you’re going to be well in no time at all Anne Hampton’s dark eyes were shining with earnestness Eleanor Butler’s face appeared over her shoulder”We’ve come to take you home, my dear,” she said”This is ridiculous,” Scarlett complained”I can perfectly well walk Rebekah clamped a [...]

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Scarlett looked briefly at the panorama of red and black backs streaming down the slope in front of her, at the horses jumping effortlessly over the low stone wall at the base of the hillThis is it, she thought, it’s too late now to worry about itShe shifted her weight without knowing she should and [...]

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He cast her away, releasing her wrists, stumbling backwards in the first uncontrolled action she had ever seen him take”Yes, by Christ! I do want you, and sicken for youYou’re a poison in my blood, Scarlett, a sickness of my soulI’ve known men with a hunger for opium that was like my hunger for youI [...]

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