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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direful whippings, but there never had been a slave sold from Tara and only one whipping, and that administered for not grooming down Gerald's pet horse after a long day's hunt Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him. Bruce 2024-10-6 047 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 As valet, he kept Gerald's bedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let matters follow their own course. Bruce 2024-10-6 046 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living. Bruce 2024-10-6 049 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the meals on time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to have clean linen on hand, so that the arrival of g Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He wanted a wife. Tara cried out for a mistress. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print, it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 In his own mind, there had never been any doubt that he belonged, from the moment he first set foot on Tara. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors had eyed him askance at first. Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman, Gerald had definitely arrived. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 But, when Mrs.Wilkes, a great lady and with a rare gift for silence, as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 The planters' ladies were the last to capitulate. Bruce 2024-10-6 052 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 Your father's a good man, and no denying it, but strict, and so take this and let's be hearing no more of it. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 His rough manner of speech was too well known to give offense, and it only made the young men grin sheepishly and reply: Well, sir, I hated to trouble you, and my father�� Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 And, in God's name, why haven't you been asking me for the money before this? Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 So, you've been owning this for a month, you young rascal! he would shout. Bruce 2024-10-6 057 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:11
Chapter-3 The white children clamored to sit on his knee and be trotted, while he denounced to their elders the infamy of Yankee politicians; the daughters of his friends took him into their confidence about their love affairs, and the youths of the neigh Bruce 2024-10-6 051 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:10
Chapter-3 His arrival was always amid a bedlam of hounds barking and small black children shouting as they raced to meet him, quarreling for the privilege of holding his horse and squirming and grinning under his good-natured insults. Bruce 2024-10-6 058 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:10
Chapter-3 Gerald was likable, and the neighbors learned in time what the children, negroes and dogs discovered at first sight, that a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his bawling voice and his truculent man Bruce 2024-10-6 060 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:10
Chapter-3 The Wilkeses, the Calverts, the Tarletons, the Fontaines, all smiled when the small figure on the big white horse galloped up their driveways, smiled and signaled for tall glasses in which a pony of Bourbon had been poured over a teaspoon of sug Bruce 2024-10-6 056 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:09
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