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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrapped about Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides. Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:57
Chapter-3 And the valet, who had begun to attempt a brogue out of admiration for his new master, made requisite answer in a combination of Geechee and County Meath that would have puzzled anyone except those two alone. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:56
Chapter-3 Never mix cards and whisky unless you were weaned on Irish poteen, Gerald told Pork gravely the same evening, as Pork assisted him to bed. Bruce 2024-10-6 025 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:56
Chapter-3 The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine. But it's yours. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:56
Chapter-3 It's no bargain you're getting and I am glad not to have to pay more taxes on the place, sighed the possessor of an ace full, as he called for pen and ink. Bruce 2024-10-6 032 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:55
Chapter-3 Moreover, such was his faith in his destiny and four deuces that he never for a moment wondered just how the money would be paid back should a higher hand be laid down across the table. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:55
Chapter-3 He knew what he wanted, and when Gerald wanted something he gained it by taking the most direct route. Bruce 2024-10-6 036 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:55
Chapter-3 If the money it contained happened to belong to the firm of O'Hara Brothers, Gerald's conscience was not sufficiently troubled to confess it before Mass the following morning. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:55
Chapter-3 Gerald shoved in all his chips and laid on top of them his wallet. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:54
Chapter-3 The stranger shoved in all his chips and followed with the deed to his plantation. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:54
Chapter-3 As the night wore on and the drinks went round, there came a time when all the others in the game laid down their hands and Gerald and the stranger were battling alone. Bruce 2024-10-6 034 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:54
Chapter-3 An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:54
Chapter-3 Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was still held by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with the Indians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and planta Bruce 2024-10-6 026 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger's description, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, and not many miles south of the Chattahoochee Rive Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers, he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the old towns westward from that city. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast��that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and his interest grew as the stranger told how the northern section of the state was filling up with newcomers from the Carolinas and Virgini Bruce 2024-10-6 027 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the accursed place and would be most happy to get it off his hands. Bruce 2024-10-6 032 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America. Bruce 2024-10-6 025 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inland country. Bruce 2024-10-6 026 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
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