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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 True, they had lived in Georgia for seventy years and, before that, had spent a generation in the Carolinas; but the first of the family who set foot on American shores had come from Ulster, and that was enough for Gerald. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
Chapter-3 The MacIntoshes were Scotch-Irish and Orangemen and, had they possessed all the saintly qualities of the Catholic calendar, this ancestry would have damned them forever in Gerald's eyes. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 Gerald was on excellent terms with all his neighbors in the County, except the MacIntoshes whose land adjoined his on the left and the Slatterys whose meager three acres stretched on his right along the swamp bottoms between the river and John W Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 He had done it all, little, hard-headed, blustering Gerald. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 From the avenue of cedars to the row of white cabins in the slave quarters, there was an air of solidness, of stability and permanence about Tara, and whenever Gerald galloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green Bruce 2024-10-6 032 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept. Bruce 2024-10-6 034 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the green incline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look of mellowed years Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the white house became a reality instead of a dream. Bruce 2024-10-6 047 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
Chapter-3 They lent Gerald the money and, in the years that followed, the money came back to them with interest. Bruce 2024-10-6 042 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
Chapter-3 The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for any overweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present an unbroken front to Bruce 2024-10-6 045 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
Chapter-3 He cleared the fields and planted cotton and borrowed more money from James and Andrew to buy more slaves. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:59
Chapter-3 With his own small stake, what he could borrow from his unenthusiastic brothers and a neat sum from mortgaging the land, Gerald bought his first field hands and came to Tara to live in bachelor solitude in the four-room overseer's house, till su Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:59
Chapter-3 Across the road would be new rail fences, inclosing fat cattle and blooded horses, and the red earth that rolled down the hillside to the rich river bottom land would gleam white as eiderdown in the sun��cotton, acres and acres of cotton! The Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:59
Chapter-3 Here under his feet would rise a house of whitewashed brick. Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:58
Chapter-3 Gerald closed his eyes and, in the stillness of the unworked acres, he felt that he had come home. Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:58
Chapter-3 The uncultivated fields, studded with tiny pines and underbrush, that stretched their rolling red-clay surface away into the distance on four sides belonged to Gerald O'Hara��were all his because he had an unbefuddled Irish head and the courag Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:58
Chapter-3 These twin lines of somber trees were his, his the abandoned lawn, waist high in weeds under white-starred young magnolia trees. Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:57
Chapter-3 He stood on the blackened foundation stones of the burned building, looked down the long avenue of trees leading toward the road and swore lustily, with a joy too deep for thankful prayer. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:57
Chapter-3 To Gerald, standing on the small knoll where the house had been, this tall barrier of green was as visible and pleasing an evidence of ownership as though it were a fence that he himself had built to mark his own. Bruce 2024-10-6 035 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:57
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