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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children�� a brood which was increased regularly every year. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:06
Chapter-3 Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 Being poor white, they were not even accorded the grudging respect that Angus MacIntosh's dour independence wrung from neighboring families. Bruce 2024-10-6 021 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 The Slatterys were another affair. Bruce 2024-10-6 011 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:05
Chapter-3 But, in an Orangeman, when a principle comes up against Scotch tightness, the principle fares ill. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 He's an Abolitionist, no doubt, observed Gerald to John Wilkes. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 Old Angus had never manumitted a single slave and had committed the unpardonable social breach of selling some of his negroes to passing slave traders en route to the cane fields of Louisiana, but the rumors persisted. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:04
Chapter-3 Rumors of Abolitionist sympathies did not enhance the popularity of the MacIntoshes. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
Chapter-3 They were a close-mouthed and stiff-necked family, who kept strictly to themselves and intermarried with their Carolina relatives, and Gerald was not alone in disliking them, for the County people were neighborly and sociable and none too tolera Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
Chapter-3 True, they had lived in Georgia for seventy years and, before that, had spent a generation in the Carolinas; but the first of the family who set foot on American shores had come from Ulster, and that was enough for Gerald. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:03
Chapter-3 The MacIntoshes were Scotch-Irish and Orangemen and, had they possessed all the saintly qualities of the Catholic calendar, this ancestry would have damned them forever in Gerald's eyes. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 Gerald was on excellent terms with all his neighbors in the County, except the MacIntoshes whose land adjoined his on the left and the Slatterys whose meager three acres stretched on his right along the swamp bottoms between the river and John W Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 He had done it all, little, hard-headed, blustering Gerald. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 From the avenue of cedars to the row of white cabins in the slave quarters, there was an air of solidness, of stability and permanence about Tara, and whenever Gerald galloped around the bend in the road and saw his own roof rising through green Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:02
Chapter-3 The lawn, reclaimed from weeds, grew thick with clover and Bermuda grass, and Gerald saw to it that it was well kept. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 It was built by slave labor, a clumsy sprawling building that crowned the rise of ground overlooking the green incline of pasture land running down to the river; and it pleased Gerald greatly, for, even when new, it wore a look of mellowed years Bruce 2024-10-6 013 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:01
Chapter-3 Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the white house became a reality instead of a dream. Bruce 2024-10-6 013 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
Chapter-3 They lent Gerald the money and, in the years that followed, the money came back to them with interest. Bruce 2024-10-6 016 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
Chapter-3 The O'Haras were a clannish tribe, clinging to one another in prosperity as well as in adversity, not for any overweening family affection but because they had learned through grim years that to survive a family must present an unbroken front to Bruce 2024-10-6 015 Bruce 2024-10-6 16:00
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