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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-7 But during the years before Gerald married Ellen, the tiny settlement, twenty-five miles north of Tara, slowly grew into a village and the tracks slowly pushed northward. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0118 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:22
Chapter-7 There were no railroads then in north Georgia, and very few anywhere else. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0117 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:22
Chapter-7 The destination of the proposed railroad, Tennessee and the West, was clear and definite, but its beginning point in Georgia was somewhat uncertain until, a year later, an engineer drove a stake in the red clay to mark the southern end of the li happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0115 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:21
Chapter-7 But the next year, in 1836, the State had authorized the building of a railroad northwestward through the territory which the Cherokees had recently ceded. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0119 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:21
Chapter-7 When Gerald first moved to north Georgia, there had been no Atlanta at all, not even the semblance of a village, and wilderness rolled over the site. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0121 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:21
Chapter-7 In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0119 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:20
Chapter-7 The story Gerald had told her was based on the fact that she and Atlanta were christened in the same year. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0113 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:20
Chapter-7 But Atlanta was of her own generation, crude with the crudities of youth and as headstrong and impetuous as herself. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0119 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:20
Chapter-7 Savannah and Charleston had the dignity of their years, one being well along in its second century and the other entering its third, and in her young eyes they had always seemed like aged grandmothers fanning themselves placidly in the sun. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0130 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:20
Chapter-7 She discovered when she grew older that Gerald had stretched the truth somewhat, as was his habit when a little stretching would improve a story; but Atlanta was only nine years older than she was, and that still left the place amazingly young b happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0171 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:19
Chapter-7 Atlanta had always interested her more than any other town because when she was a child Gerald had told her that she and Atlanta were exactly the same age. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0138 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:19
Chapter-7 As the train carried Scarlett northward that May morning in 1862, she thought that Atlanta couldn't possibly be so boring as Charleston and Savannah had been and, in spite of her distaste for Miss Pittypat and Melanie, she looked forward with so happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0148 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:19
Chapter-7 But the County with its memories was impossible now, and any change was welcome. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0129 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:19
Chapter-7 She thought Aunt Pitty the silliest of old ladies and the very idea of living under the same roof with Ashley's wife was abhorrent. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0115 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:18
Chapter-7 She did not especially want to go to Atlanta. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0110 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:18
Chapter-7 So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hampton and his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars in Confederate bills from Ge happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0122 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:18
Chapter-7 And perhaps dear Scarlett could find some ease for her sorrow, as Melly is doing, by nursing our brave boys in the hospitals here��and, of course, Melly and I are longing to see the dear baby.... happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0106 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:18
Chapter-7 Three lonely women are better than two. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0114 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:17
Chapter-7 Melly and I would feel so much easier and safer if Scarlett were with us. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0110 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:17
Chapter-7 Delicacy forbids my putting more concerning him on paper. happybruce2014 2024-11-30 0108 happybruce2014 2024-11-30 10:17
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