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Chapter-3 An hour later when the conversation began to lag, Gerald, with a guile that belied the wide innocence of his bright blue eyes, proposed a game.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:54
Chapter-3 Gerald knew that northward beyond that stream the land was still held by the Cherokees, so it was with amazement that he heard the stranger jeer at suggestions of trouble with the Indians and narrate how thriving towns were growing up and planta	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger's description, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, and not many miles south of the Chattahoochee Rive	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 In transacting business for O'Hara Brothers, he had visited Augusta, a hundred miles up the Savannah River, and he had traveled inland far enough to visit the old towns westward from that city.	Bruce 2024-10-6	09	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 Gerald had lived in Savannah long enough to acquire a viewpoint of the Coast��that all of the rest of the state was backwoods, with an Indian lurking in every thicket.	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:53
Chapter-3 Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and his interest grew as the stranger told how the northern section of the state was filling up with newcomers from the Carolinas and Virgini	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the accursed place and would be most happy to get it off his hands.	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:52
Chapter-3 The stranger, a native of Savannah, had just returned after twelve years in the inland country.	Bruce 2024-10-6	07	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.	Bruce 2024-10-6	06	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara, and at the same time moved him out of the Coast into the upland country of north Georgia.	Bruce 2024-10-6	011	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 Coastal Georgia was too firmly held by an entrenched aristocracy for him ever to hope to win the place he intended to have.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:51
Chapter-3 But having that ambition and bringing it to realization were two different matters, he discovered as time went by.	Bruce 2024-10-6	09	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 And here in this new country, safe from the twin perils of the land he had left��taxation that ate up crops and barns and the ever-present threat of sudden confiscation��he intended to have them.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 Gerald wanted to be a planter.	Bruce 2024-10-6	06	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:50
Chapter-3 He felt keenly, as his brothers did not, the social stigma attached to those in trade.	Bruce 2024-10-6	08	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 His mind was made up that he was not going to spend all of his days, like James and Andrew, in bargaining, or all his nights, by candlelight, over long columns of figures.	Bruce 2024-10-6	010	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value, Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the best damn valet on the Coast, was the first step upward toward his heart's desire,	Bruce 2024-10-6	09	Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49

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