Oh, Pa, thats such an Old Country
notion!
Oh, Pa, cried Scarlett impatiently, if I married
him, Idchange all that!
He tossed the reins of his horse to a small
pickaninny standingnear and started up the steps.
Wilkes and the ability to manage Tara as well as
Mrs.
And to anyone with adrop of Irish blood in them the
land they live on is like theirmother. Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and
gave orders to thecoachman to drive carefully. Well be going in to supper now, and
all this is between us.
Gerald upbraided Pork for his impertinence, but he
knew that hewas right. Gerald helped his wife into the carriage and gave orders to
thecoachman to drive carefully. Here under his feet wouldrise a house of whitewashed
brick.
Theres only one who takes me eye, Gerald said
finally. Scarlett slowly climbed the steps after him, her feet leaden.
And to anyone with adrop of Irish blood in them the
land they live on is like theirmother. Youre not a rich man and you havent a great
family, saidJames. The girl wouldnt have you anyway, interposed Andrew. The girl
wouldnt have you anyway, interposed Andrew. Youre just achild and bothered about
your beaux.
They drove him away, Father and Pauline and
Eulalie. He wanted a wife and he wanted children and, if he didnot acquire them
soon, it would be too late.
Gerald shoved in all his chips and laid on top
ofthem his wallet.
The planters ladies were the last to capitulate.
The first was the scarcity of girls ofmarriageable age. But Gerald had known
poverty,and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or
goodgrace.
Gerald himself never quite knew how it all came
about.
The stranger, a native of Savannah, had
justreturned after twelve years in the inland country. If the educational equipment
which Gerald brought to America wasscant, he did not even know it.
He had done it all, little, hard-headed, blustering
Gerald. He can do all those things, buthis hearts not in it.
Gerald closed his eyes and, in the stillness of the
unworkedacres, he felt that he had come home.
But hes queer in other ways,and theres no
understanding him at all.
OHara, there is illness at the Slattery
house.
He had already forgottenScarletts heartbreak and
his mind was only on plaguing his valet. Gerald looked at her bowed head and
shuffled his feet uneasily.
Jerry, theres no girl in Savannah youd have less
chance ofmarrying. If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America
wasscant, he did not even know it. Gerald took her arm and passed it through his.