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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-5 In summers, the County averaged a barbecue and ball nearly every week, but to the red-haired Tarletons with their enormous capacity for enjoying themselves, each barbecue and each ball was as exciting as if it were the first they had ever attend Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:10
Chapter-5 No girl in the County, with the possible exception of the empty-headed Cathleen Calvert, really liked Scarlett. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:10
Chapter-5 That is, they liked Suellen and Carreen. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:10
Chapter-5 But they were a sociable family and liked their neighbors, especially the O'Hara girls. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:10
Chapter-5 To a casual observer it would seem that years had passed since the Tarletons had seen the O'Haras, instead of only two days. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 She waved her whip when she saw Gerald and drew her dancing pair of red horses to a halt, and the four girls in the back of the carriage leaned out and gave such vociferous cries of greeting that the team pranced in alarm. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 Today, dressed in dull black silk over unfashionably narrow hoops, she still looked as though in her habit, for the dress was as severely tailored as her riding costume and the small black hat with its long black plume perched over one warm, twi Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 But Fairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up and down riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the skirt of her habit absently looped o Bruce 2024-10-25 05 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 Each morning, rain or shine, Nellie was saddled and walked up and down in front of the house, waiting for the time when Mrs. Tarleton could spare an hour away from her duties. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode or not she always expected to ride and in that expectation put on her habit upon arising. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:09
Chapter-5 She credited her horses, especially her red mare, Nellie, with human intelligence; and if the cares of the house kept her busy beyond the time when she expected to take her daily ride, she put the sugar bowl in the hands of some small pickaninny Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 Colts overflowed the paddock onto the front lawn, even as her eight children overflowed the rambling house on the hill, and colts and sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went about the plantation. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 She understood them and handled them better than any man in the County. Bruce 2024-10-25 02 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 She loved horses and talked horses constantly. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 Curb them but don't break their spirits, was Mrs. Tarleton's motto. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 She had borne eight children, as red of hair and as full of life as she, and had raised them most successfully, so the County said, because she gave them all the loving neglect and the stern discipline she gave the colts she bred. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:08
Chapter-5 Frail, fine-boned, so white of skin that her flaming hair seemed to have drawn all the color from her face into its vital burnished mass, she was nevertheless possessed of exuberant health and untiring energy. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:07
Chapter-5 And, besides, Beatrice Tarleton never willingly permitted anyone, black or white, to hold reins when her arms were out of slings. Bruce 2024-10-25 04 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:07
Chapter-5 With her four daughters, their mammy and their ball dresses in long cardboard boxes crowding the carriage, there was no room for the coachman. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:07
Chapter-5 He stood up in his stirrups and took off his hat with a sweep, as the Tarleton carriage, overflowing with girls in bright dresses and parasols and fluttering veils, came into view, with Mrs. Tarleton on the box as Gerald had said. Bruce 2024-10-25 03 Bruce 2024-10-25 21:07
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