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Black velvet ribbon in loops bordered the gown’s train and a wide black velvet bow lined with paler blue silk sat atop the gown’s bustle, emphasizing her tiny waistHer slippers were made of blue velvet with black laces, and narrow black velvet ribbon was tied around her throat and each wristWhite camellias tied with black [...]

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Just so had her mother defied him, so many years before, and he had lost her foreverHis heart had broken then; Ellen was his favorite child, the daughter most like her motherHe didn’t love ScarlettAll the love he had was in the grave with his wifeBut he wouldn’t let Scarlett go without a fightHe wanted [...]

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And wake me up tomorrow at five o’clock “Five o’clock?” “Are you deaf? You heard meI want that green outfit ready to put on when I get up Scarlett sank gratefully into the feather mattress and down pillows on the big bedIt had been an over-full, over-emotional dayMeeting Miss Eleanor, then shopping, then that silly [...]

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There are always five or six hundred at the State and Saint Patrick’s balls and more than a thousand at the Drawing Rooms You certainly already know at least half the people who7l be there, probably many more than half “I still think it’s tacky that you weren’t invited “It’s the way things are Charlotte [...]

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But now Steven is dead, seven years this monthAnd Rhett is home again, and the joy of it fills my life, and Ross cannot fail to see itButler’s voice was hoarse, ragged from the effort of speaking the heavy secrets of her heartIt broke, and she wept bitterly”My poor boy, my poor, hurting Ross I [...]

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She missed Kathleen, and the rest of the familyPegeen made visits so uncomfortable that she almost never saw her cousins any moreThat could wait, it would have toThere was planting to be doneIn June Scarlett spent a long, exhausting day being measured by the dressmaker Charlotte Montague had brought over from DublinScarlett had to hold [...]

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I don’t know how I could have made so many mistakes “Miss Scarlett, you done what you had to doCan’t nobody do more than thatThe good Lord sent you some heavy burdens, and you carried them No sense asking why they was laid on you or what it took out of you to tote them [...]

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The waiting was eating away at himWhen the sunrise came, he walked through the rose-tinted ground mist to the Big House, let himself in with a key, and went to Rosaleen’s room”I believe you’re right,” he told her “Does that earn me a cup of tea?” MrsFitzpatrick made a graceful apology to Scarlett later that [...]

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She was not red and misshapen like most newborns because she had not passed through the birth canalHer tiny nose and ears and mouth and soft pulsing skull were perfectHer olive skin was very dark against the white blanketScarlett struggled towards the voices and the light her sedated mind vaguely perceived something important Firm hands [...]

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The twins, tall and handsome, the girls squirming with juvenile impatience to move on to the next adventure life held for themScarlett had always envied the Tarleton girls their freeand-easy ways with their motherNow she saw the same easiness between Maureen and her childrenAnd she knew that she, too, was welcome to laugh with Maureen, [...]

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