Though Heavenknows how they manage it, with their
neighbors watching.
This aroused her temper, for she cared no more
about familythan her father. The South could only turn in upon itself. Her spirits
drooped,despite the efforts of the whole plantation to revive them. Its little
enough I can do,since you wouldnt let me go in the army. Scarlett longed for the fat
old arms of Mammy. When she saw the look on his face, she thought: This cant
bereal.
But that thought was farthest from hermind. Let the
older towns call Atlanta anything they pleased. By night, thefurnaces glowed and the
hammers clanged long after townsfolk wereabed. Oh, dear, but Ive promised a thousand
ladies already! Dars MissMerriwether an Miss Elsing a-bowin to you. When she saw the
look on his face, she thought: This cant bereal. Oh, dear, but Ive promised a
thousand ladies already!
They wanted her for her own self because theyloved
her.
Miss Scarlett, she too young ter be handlin Mist
Charlesonlies baby! Oh, dear, but Ive promised a thousand ladies already! Melanie
said: You must kiss Scarlett, Ashley.
Meade, drawing him closer to her, asudden look of
strain coming over her face.
Nom,Ah ain sho whut kine of furriners dey is. There
was an excitingatmosphere about the place that uplifted her.
Uncle Peterpractically raised Melanie and me, for
we were very young whenFather and Mother died.
She hated Twelve Oaks now and once she had loved
it.
But Mammy was at Taraand there was nothing Scarlett
could do.
But that thought was farthest from hermind. Of
course, there is my brother Henry but he does not make his homewith us.
He yelled just as loudly whenshe held him as when
Prissy did. But she was a widow and she hadto watch her behavior. I mustnt think of
it now, or Ill beginscreaming in front of all these people.
Scarlett longed for the fat old arms of
Mammy.
Meade and his wife and little thirteen-year-old
Phil emerged,calling greetings. Nom, Ah kain stop fer youter look around. I mustnt
think of it now, or Ill beginscreaming in front of all these people.
But she wasback at Tara a month before Ellen
expected her, with noexplanation of her return. Elsing in an elegant die-away drawl
andMrs.
Nom, Ah kain stop fer youter look around. I
promised because I hadnt a notion what it was all about,Scarlett
confessed.
And every day the trains just below Five Points
disgorgedmore sick and more wounded.
Perhaps with one boy at the front, thats enough
forthe time being. This aroused her temper, for she cared no more about familythan
her father.