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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 Scarlett, whose room lay across the hall from her mother's, knew from babyhood the soft sound of scurrying bare black feet on the hardwood floor in the hours of dawn, the urgent tappings on her mother's door, and the muffled, frightened negro vo Bruce 2024-10-6 028 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:34
Chapter-3 When Ellen was dressing for a ball or for guests or even to go to Jonesboro for Court Day, it frequently required two hours, two maids and Mammy to turn her out to her own satisfaction; but her swift toilets in times of emergency were amazing. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:34
Chapter-3 She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no matter what the hour of day or night. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:34
Chapter-3 Scarlett could not imagine her mother's hands without her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life was to remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:34
Chapter-3 It was delicate embroidery if company were present, but at other times her hands were occupied with Gerald's ruffled shirts, the girls' dresses or garments for the slaves. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:34
Chapter-3 Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation. Bruce 2024-10-6 035 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 Scarlett had never seen her mother's back touch the back of any chair on which she sat. Bruce 2024-10-6 029 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 As far back as Scarlett could remember, her mother had always been the same, her voice soft and sweet whether in praising or in reproving, her manner efficient and unruffled despite the daily emergencies of Gerald's turbulent household, her spir Bruce 2024-10-6 032 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 She spoke in the soft slurring voice of the coastal Georgian, liquid of vowels, kind to consonants and with the barest trace of French accent. Bruce 2024-10-6 031 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 She would have been a strikingly beautiful woman had there been any glow in her eyes, any responsive warmth in her smile or any spontaneity in her voice that fell with gentle melody on the ears of her family and her servants. Bruce 2024-10-6 037 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:33
Chapter-3 But only from life could Ellen's face have acquired its look of pride that had no haughtiness, its graciousness, its melancholy and its utter lack of humor. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:32
Chapter-3 From her French mother, whose parents had fled Haiti in the Revolution of 1791, had come her slanting dark eyes, shadowed by inky lashes, and her black hair; and from her father, a soldier of Napoleon, she had her long straight nose and her squa Bruce 2024-10-6 046 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:32
Chapter-3 Her neck, rising from the black taffeta sheath of her basque, was creamy-skinned, rounded and slender, and it seemed always tilted slightly backward by the weight of her luxuriant hair in its net at the back of her head. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:32
Chapter-3 She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself. Bruce 2024-10-6 039 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:32
Chapter-3 Ellen O'Hara was thirty-two years old, and, according to the standards of her day, she was a middle-aged woman, one who had borne six children and buried three. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:32
Chapter-2 As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:24
Chapter-2 She thought that, after all, a mating between herself and Ashley could be no queerer than that of her father and Ellen Robillard O'Hara. Bruce 2024-10-6 032 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:24
Chapter-2 Scarlett slowly climbed the steps after him, her feet leaden. Bruce 2024-10-6 033 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:23
Chapter-2 He had already forgotten Scarlett's heartbreak and his mind was only on plaguing his valet. Bruce 2024-10-6 030 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:23
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