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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 The avenue of cedars leading from the main road to the house��that avenue of cedars without which no Georgia planter's home could be complete��had a cool dark shadiness that gave a brighter tinge, by contrast, to the green of the other trees Bruce 2024-10-6 048 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 The house had been built according to no architectural plan whatever, with extra rooms added where and when it seemed convenient, but, with Ellen's care and attention, it gained a charm that made up for its lack of design. Bruce 2024-10-6 051 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before. Bruce 2024-10-6 045 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy. Bruce 2024-10-6 052 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained wi Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 If she was only fifteen years old, she was nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 From the day when Ellen first came to Tara, the place had been transformed. Bruce 2024-10-6 049 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 Then followed three little boys, each of whom died before he had learned to walk��three little boys who now lay under the twisted cedars in the burying ground a hundred yards from the house, beneath three stones, each bearing the name of Geral Bruce 2024-10-6 046 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 When Scarlett was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a girl baby had any right to be, in Mammy's opinion, Ellen's second child, named Susan Elinor, but always called Suellen, was born, and in due time came Carreen, listed in the fami Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to the service of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had never asked any questions. Bruce 2024-10-6 049 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 She was a thrifty and kind mistress, a good mother and a devoted wife. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 She became the best-loved neighbor in the County. Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 Ellen never would, or could, quite become one of them��she had left too much of herself in Savannah��but she respected them and, in time, learned to admire the frankness and forthrightness of these people, who had few reticences and who valu Bruce 2024-10-6 048 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 They had money enough and slaves enough to give them time to play, and they liked to play. Bruce 2024-10-6 047 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 This certainty of the morrow gave zest and enthusiasm to life, and the County people enjoyed life with a heartiness that Ellen could never understand. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
Chapter-3 If cotton could make them rich in one generation, how much richer they would be in the next! Bruce 2024-10-6 048 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:53
Chapter-3 Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too��arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:53
Chapter-3 Cotton was the heartbeat of the section, the planting and the picking were the diastole and systole of the red earth. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:53
Chapter-3 All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:53
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