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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 But Mammy was under no illusions about her and was constantly alert for breaks in the veneer. Bruce 2024-10-6 042 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:05
Chapter-3 Ellen never fully realized that it was only a veneer, for Scarlett always showed her best face to her mother, concealing her escapades, curbing her temper and appearing as sweet-natured as she could in Ellen's presence, for her mother could sham Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:05
Chapter-3 She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature. Bruce 2024-10-6 048 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:05
Chapter-3 At sixteen, thanks to Mammy and Ellen, she looked sweet, charming and giddy, but she was, in reality, self-willed, vain and obstinate. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:04
Chapter-3 Gerald bragged that she was the belle of five counties, and with some truth, for she had received proposals from nearly all the young men in the neighborhood and many from places as far away as Atlanta and Savannah. Bruce 2024-10-6 048 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:04
Chapter-3 Appearances were enough, for the appearances of ladyhood won her popularity and that was all she wanted. Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:04
Chapter-3 The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it. Bruce 2024-10-6 058 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:04
Chapter-3 Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility. Bruce 2024-10-6 042 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:03
Chapter-3 Gentlemen do not like forward girls. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:03
Chapter-3 You must not interrupt gentlemen when they are speaking, even if you do think you know more about matters than they do. Bruce 2024-10-6 054 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:03
Chapter-3 You must be more gentle, dear, more sedate, Ellen told her daughter. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:03
Chapter-3 Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:02
Chapter-3 Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's. Bruce 2024-10-6 049 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:02
Chapter-3 She knew how to smile so that her dimples leaped, how to walk pigeon-toed so that her wide hoop skirts swayed entrancingly, how to look up into a man's face and then drop her eyes and bat the lids rapidly so that she seemed a- tremble with gentl Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:02
Chapter-3 Despite a succession of governesses and two years at the near-by Fayetteville Female Academy, her education was sketchy, but no girl in the County danced more gracefully than she. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:02
Chapter-3 To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:01
Chapter-3 She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:01
Chapter-3 She knew that from childhood playmates grew beaux in later years, and the first duty of a girl was to get married. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:01
Chapter-3 But Ellen took a more tolerant and long-sighted view of the matter. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:01
Chapter-3 Mammy was greatly perturbed that Ellen's daughter should display such traits and frequently adjured her to ack lak a lil lady. Bruce 2024-10-6 047 Bruce 2024-10-6 18:01
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