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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 Simons Island, whose courage in a bluff equaled Gerald's but whose head for New Orleans rum did not. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:49
Chapter-3 The valet, Pork by name, shining black, dignified and trained in all the arts of sartorial elegance, was the result of an all-night poker game with a planter from St. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 The other was his wife, and he could only attribute her to the mysterious kindness of God. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 He found poker the most useful of all Southern customs, poker and a steady head for whisky; and it was his natural aptitude for cards and amber liquor that brought to Gerald two of his three most prized possessions, his valet and his plantation. Bruce 2024-10-6 06 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 From them he learned what he found useful, and the rest he dismissed. Bruce 2024-10-6 05 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:48
Chapter-3 But there was a brisk and restless vitality about the young Irishman, fresh from a country where winds blew wet and chill, where misty swamps held no fevers, that set him apart from these indolent gentlefolk of semi-tropical weather and malarial Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 They were a pleasant race, these coastal Georgians, with their soft-voiced, quick rages and their charming inconsistencies, and Gerald liked them. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 But Gerald had known poverty, and he could never learn to lose money with good humor or good grace. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 He liked the casual grace with which they conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing off their losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:47
Chapter-3 Their lazy, blurred voices fell pleasantly on his ears, but his own brisk brogue clung to his tongue. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:46
Chapter-3 But Gerald could never attain elegance. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:46
Chapter-3 He admired the drawling elegance of the wealthy rice and cotton planters, who rode into Savannah from their moss-hung kingdoms, mounted on thoroughbred horses and followed by the carriages of their equally elegant ladies and the wagons of their Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:46
Chapter-3 His habits of living and his ideas changed, but his manners he would not change, even had he been able to change them. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:46
Chapter-3 But Gerald remained Gerald. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:45
Chapter-3 There was no need for him to acquire a good head for whisky, he had been born with one. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:45
Chapter-3 He even learned to chew tobacco. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:45
Chapter-3 There was much about the South��and Southerners��that he would never comprehend: but, with the wholeheartedness that was his nature, he adopted its ideas and customs, as he understood them, for his own��poker and horse racing, red-hot poli Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:45
Chapter-3 He liked the South, and he soon became, in his own opinion, a Southerner. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:44
Chapter-3 James and Andrew, who had begun by hauling goods in covered wagons from Savannah to Georgia's inland towns, had prospered into a store of their own, and Gerald prospered with them. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:44
Chapter-3 America, in the early years of the century, had been kind to the Irish. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:44
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