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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 Ellen's life was not easy, nor was it happy, but she did not expect life to be easy, and, if it was not happy, that was woman's lot. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:58
Chapter-3 If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:58
Chapter-3 After they had passed their tenth year, they were sent to old Daddy the plantation cobbler to learn his trade, or to Amos the wheelwright and carpenter, or Philip the cow man, or Cuffee the mule boy. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:58
Chapter-3 Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:57
Chapter-3 Armed with a ragged towel, the little negro boy sitting on the steps was part of the picture of Tara��and an unhappy one, for he was forbidden to chunk the fowls and could only flap the towel at them and shoo them. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:57
Chapter-3 Against their depredations, a small black sentinel was stationed on the front porch. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:57
Chapter-3 The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:57
Chapter-3 In spring time and summer, the Bermuda grass and clover on the lawn became emerald, so enticing an emerald that it presented an irresistible temptation to the flocks of turkeys and white geese that were supposed to roam only the regions in the r Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:57
Chapter-3 The wistaria tumbling over the verandas showed bright against the whitewashed brick, and it joined with the pink crepe myrtle bushes by the door and the white-blossomed magnolias in the yard to disguise some of the awkward lines of the house. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 The avenue of cedars leading from the main road to the house��that avenue of cedars without which no Georgia planter's home could be complete��had a cool dark shadiness that gave a brighter tinge, by contrast, to the green of the other trees Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 The house had been built according to no architectural plan whatever, with extra rooms added where and when it seemed convenient, but, with Ellen's care and attention, it gained a charm that made up for its lack of design. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 She quickly brought order, dignity and grace into Gerald's household, and she gave Tara a beauty it had never had before. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 Ellen had been given this preparation for marriage which any well- brought-up young lady received, and she also had Mammy, who could galvanize the most shiftless negro into energy. Bruce 2024-10-6 014 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 Before marriage, young girls must be, above all other things, sweet, gentle, beautiful and ornamental, but, after marriage, they were expected to manage households that numbered a hundred people or more, white and black, and they were trained wi Bruce 2024-10-6 013 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:56
Chapter-3 If she was only fifteen years old, she was nevertheless ready for the responsibilities of the mistress of a plantation. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 From the day when Ellen first came to Tara, the place had been transformed. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 Then followed three little boys, each of whom died before he had learned to walk��three little boys who now lay under the twisted cedars in the burying ground a hundred yards from the house, beneath three stones, each bearing the name of Geral Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 When Scarlett was a year old, and more healthy and vigorous than a girl baby had any right to be, in Mammy's opinion, Ellen's second child, named Susan Elinor, but always called Suellen, was born, and in due time came Carreen, listed in the fami Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 The heartbreak and selflessness that she would have dedicated to the Church were devoted instead to the service of her child, her household and the man who had taken her out of Savannah and its memories and had never asked any questions. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:55
Chapter-3 She was a thrifty and kind mistress, a good mother and a devoted wife. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:54
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