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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:09
Chapter-3 They would have considered it money well spent to rid the community of an eyesore, but he was well satisfied to remain and to subsist miserably on the proceeds of a bale of cotton a year and the charity of his neighbors. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:09
Chapter-3 Tom Slattery could have sold his farm for three times its value to any of the planters in the County. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:09
Chapter-3 They were proud of the good names of their owners and, for the most part, proud to belong to people who were quality, while he was despised by all. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:08
Chapter-3 By contrast with his own miserable existence, they were well-fed, well-clothed and looked after in sickness and old age. Bruce 2024-10-6 042 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:08
Chapter-3 The house negroes of the County considered themselves superior to white trash, and their unconcealed scorn stung him, while their more secure position in life stirred his envy. Bruce 2024-10-6 036 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:08
Chapter-3 Slattery hated his neighbors with what little energy he possessed, sensing their contempt beneath their courtesy, and especially did he hate rich folks' uppity niggers. Bruce 2024-10-6 035 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:07
Chapter-3 The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of bacon to tide him over, was a familiar one. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:07
Chapter-3 Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:07
Chapter-3 But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:06
Chapter-3 Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden. Bruce 2024-10-6 035 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:06
Chapter-3 His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children�� a brood which was increased regularly every year. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:06
Chapter-3 Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families. Bruce 2024-10-6 049 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 The Slatterys were another affair. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 But, in an Orangeman, when a principle comes up against Scotch tightness, the principle fares ill. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 He's an Abolitionist, no doubt, observed Gerald to John Wilkes. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave and had committed the unpardonable social breach of selling some of his negroes to passing slave traders en route to the cane fields of Louisiana, but the rumors persisted. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
Chapter-3 They were a close-mouthed and stiff-necked family, who kept strictly to themselves and intermarried with their Carolina relatives, and Gerald was not alone in disliking them, for the County people were neighborly and sociable and none too tolera Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
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