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Gone With The Wind

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Chapter-3 It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.	Bruce 2024-10-6	025	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara, and at the same time moved him out of the Coast into the upland country of north Georgia.	Bruce 2024-10-6	041	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.	Bruce 2024-10-6	035	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 But having that ambition and bringing it to realization were two different matters, he discovered as time went by.	Bruce 2024-10-6	028	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left��taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation��he intended to have them.	Bruce 2024-10-6	030	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.	Bruce 2024-10-6	030	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.	Bruce 2024-10-6	031	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 Gerald wanted to be a planter.	Bruce 2024-10-6	025	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 He felt keenly, as his brothers did not, the social stigma attached to those in trade.	Bruce 2024-10-6	027	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like James and Andrew, in bargaining, or all his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.	Bruce 2024-10-6	032	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value, Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the best damn valet on the Coast, was the first step upward toward his heart's desire,	Bruce 2024-10-6	037	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 Simons Island, whose courage in a bluff equaled Gerald's but whose head for New Orleans rum did not.	Bruce 2024-10-6	034	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 The valet, Pork by name, shining black, dignified and trained in all the arts of sartorial elegance, was the result of an all-night poker game with a planter from St.	Bruce 2024-10-6	033	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 The other was his wife, and he could only attribute her to the mysterious kindness of God.	Bruce 2024-10-6	031	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 He found poker the most useful of all Southern customs, poker and a steady head for whisky; and it was his natural aptitude for cards and amber liquor that brought to Gerald two of his three most prized possessions, his valet and his plantation.	Bruce 2024-10-6	029	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 From them he learned what he found useful, and the rest he dismissed.	Bruce 2024-10-6	026	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 But there was a brisk and restless vitality about the young Irishman, fresh from a country where winds blew wet and chill, where misty swamps held no fevers, that set him apart from these indolent gentlefolk of semi-tropical weather and malarial	Bruce 2024-10-6	032	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 They were a pleasant race, these coastal Georgians, with their soft-voiced, quick rages and their charming inconsistencies, and Gerald liked them.	Bruce 2024-10-6	034	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace.	Bruce 2024-10-6	032	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 He liked the casual grace with which they conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing off their losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to	Bruce 2024-10-6	038	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47

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