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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 But he was not going to marry just anyone, as Mr. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 He wanted a wife and he wanted children and, if he did not acquire them soon, it would be too late. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 Gerald upbraided Pork for his impertinence, but he knew that he was right. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 Mist' Gerald, said Pork, gratefully rolling up the shirt as Gerald fumed, whut you needs is a wife, and a wife whut has got plen'y of house niggers. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 Pork brought forth his favorite ruffled shirt, so inexpertly mended by the chambermaid as to be unwearable by anyone except his valet. Bruce 2024-10-6 013 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 The urgent need of a wife became clear to him one morning when he was dressing to ride to town for Court Day. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:32
Chapter-3 He only saw the outward results, and those results impressed him. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 Gerald's sharp blue eyes noticed how efficiently his neighbors' houses were run and with what ease the smooth-haired wives in rustling skirts managed their servants. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direful whippings, but there never had been a slave sold from Tara and only one whipping, and that administered for not grooming down Gerald's pet horse after a long day's hunt Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of him. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 As valet, he kept Gerald's bedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let matters follow their own course. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:31
Chapter-3 Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the meals on time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust accumulate on the furniture and never seemed to have clean linen on hand, so that the arrival of g Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He wanted a wife. Tara cried out for a mistress. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 When Gerald was forty-three, so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print, it came to him that Tara, dear though it was, and the County folk, with their open hearts and open houses, were not Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 In his own mind, there had never been any doubt that he belonged, from the moment he first set foot on Tara. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He did not know that he had taken nearly ten years to arrive, for it never occurred to him that his neighbors had eyed him askance at first. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:30
Chapter-3 He has a rough tongue, but he is a gentleman, Gerald had definitely arrived. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
Chapter-3 But, when Mrs.Wilkes, a great lady and with a rare gift for silence, as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway. Bruce 2024-10-6 05 Bruce 2024-10-6 17:29
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