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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 His mother had taught him to read and to write a clear hand. Bruce 2024-10-6 056 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:42
Chapter-3 Nor would he have cared if he had been told. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:41
Chapter-3 If the educational equipment which Gerald brought to America was scant, he did not even know it. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:41
Chapter-3 He swaggered among the tall O'Haras like a strutting bantam in a barnyard of giant Cochin roosters, and they loved him, baited him affectionately to hear him roar and hammered on him with their large fists no more than was necessary to keep a ba Bruce 2024-10-6 035 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:41
Chapter-3 But Gerald was loud-mouthed and bullheaded, as his mother fondly phrased it, hair trigger of temper, quick with his fists and possessed of a chip on his shoulder so large as to be almost visible to the naked eye. Bruce 2024-10-6 041 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:41
Chapter-3 Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the other O'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government. Bruce 2024-10-6 034 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:41
Chapter-3 His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor. Bruce 2024-10-6 040 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:40
Chapter-3 And Gerald was hardy. Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:40
Chapter-3 Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones. Bruce 2024-10-6 034 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:40
Chapter-3 It was like Gerald that he never wasted regrets on his lack of height and never found it an obstacle to his acquisition of anything he wanted. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:40
Chapter-3 His five brothers and their father stood six feet and over and broad in proportion, but little Gerald, at twenty-one, knew that five feet four and a half inches was as much as the Lord in His wisdom was going to allow him. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:40
Chapter-3 His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family. Bruce 2024-10-6 043 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, Remember who ye are and don't be taking nothing off no man. Bruce 2024-10-6 051 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 Now they were successful merchants in Savannah, though the dear God alone knows where that may be, as their mother always interpolated when mentioning the two oldest of her male brood, and it was to them that young Gerald was sent. Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 They had come to America years before, after the discovery of a small arsenal of rifles buried under the O'Hara pigsty. Bruce 2024-10-6 038 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 His two oldest brothers, James and Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night on mysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety. Bruce 2024-10-6 036 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 For years, the O'Haras had been in bad odor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not the first O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anything very serious, except for the fact that it was charged with serious consequences. Bruce 2024-10-6 051 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and their neighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went off in the same cloud of d Bruce 2024-10-6 044 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 True, he had called the rent agent a bastard of an Orangeman, but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did not give the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of The Boyne Water. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
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