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Though this year won’t be as peaceful as usualThe poor Yankee soldiers will be down on our necks, more than likelyTheir colonel can’t just let it slide that we all broke curfew with such a bang She giggled like a girl “What fun that was!” “Honestly, Mama!” said Rosemary”How can you call those bluecoated wretches [...]

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Or as dowdy as the younger women who were hereWhy was it that everywhere in the South people thought they had to look poor and patched to prove they were respectable? The string quartet bored her, and she thought the harpist would never finishShe did enjoy the singers, even though she had never heard of [...]

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Charlotte’s future, also She glanced at Scarlett to reassure herselfYes, she looked lovely in her green merino ravelling costumeThose eyes of hers were a gift from God, so istinctive and memorableAnd her slim uncorseted body was sure o set tongues wagging and the pulses of men racing She looked recisely like what Charlotte had insinuated [...]

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No sense asking why they was laid on you or what it took out of you to tote them Don’t fret yourself now Mammy’s heavy eyelids closed over tears that glistened in the dim light, and her ragged breathing slowed in sleep How can I not fret? Scarlett wanted to shoutMy life is ruined, and [...]

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The coconut was fresh, moist, sweetScarlett enjoyed it very much, even though it lost its thrilling defiance when she saw that Miss Telfair was nibbling on something that she was holding between her kid-gloved thumb and forefinger”I still say the cowboy in the green hat was the best,” Mary Kate insisted “He did all those [...]

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Laughter at a deathbedThen she realized that Mammy was laughing, too, without soundRhett put his hand on his shirt “I swear to you that Lune won’t even get a look at it, MammyI’ll make sure it goes with you to Heaven Mammy’s hand reached for him, gesturing his ear closer to her lips”You take care [...]

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She wanted to defend her father, and her cousins, from his prejudice against the IrishIf only she didn’t have this terrible suspicion that the children brought the baby pigs into the house to play with”Never mind,” said her grandfatherIt’s a matter of supreme indifference to me He closed his eyes, dismissing her from his sight [...]

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And I look like a hag because I never get enough sleep I do wish there wasn’t a big party every single nightThose shadows under your eyes make you look spiritual They must impress the Mother Superior enormously “Oh! Rhett, what a horrid thing to sayI’ll have to go powder right this minute In fact [...]

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“Didn’t he tell me himself to drop five pounds from the rent as a gift for my wedding?” Five pounds, she thoughtFrom a man who’ll pay thirty times that for a horse”I’m familiar with Dunsany,” Scarlett said”It’s not far from the friends I’m visitingI’d dearly love to hunt with you sometimeI can hack over any [...]

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Scarlett held the white camellias Rhett had sent her to the cluster of curls at the nape of her neck and twisted her head to see herself in the looking glass “It looks like a gloh of fat on a bunch of sausages,” she said with disgust”Pansy, you’ll have to do my hair different She [...]

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