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Gone With The Wind
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Chapter-3 His five tall brothers gave him good-by with admiring but slightly patronizing smiles, for Gerald was the baby and the little one of a brawny family. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, Remember who ye are and don't be taking nothing off no man. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 Now they were successful merchants in Savannah, though the dear God alone knows where that may be, as their mother always interpolated when mentioning the two oldest of her male brood, and it was to them that young Gerald was sent. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 They had come to America years before, after the discovery of a small arsenal of rifles buried under the O'Hara pigsty. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 His two oldest brothers, James and Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night on mysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:39
Chapter-3 For years, the O'Haras had been in bad odor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not the first O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anything very serious, except for the fact that it was charged with serious consequences. Bruce 2024-10-6 013 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 The Battle of the Boyne had been fought more than a hundred years before, but, to the O'Haras and their neighbors, it might have been yesterday when their hopes and their dreams, as well as their lands and wealth, went off in the same cloud of d Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 True, he had called the rent agent a bastard of an Orangeman, but that, according to Gerald's way of looking at it, did not give the man any right to insult him by whistling the opening bars of The Boyne Water. Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth a hundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the death of an English absentee landlord's rent agent, it was time for Gerald O'Hara Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 He had come hastily, as many a better and worse Irishman before and since, with the clothes he had on his back, two shillings above his passage money and a price on his head that he felt was larger than his misdeed warranted. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:38
Chapter-3 Gerald had come to America from Ireland when he was twenty-one. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:37
Chapter-3 For Gerald was a self-made man. Bruce 2024-10-6 010 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:37
Chapter-3 Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was no less than a miracle that he, an Irishman with nothing of family and wealth to recommend him, should win the daughter of one of the wealthiest and proudest families on the Coast. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:37
Chapter-3 And if anything was gone from her, he never missed it. Bruce 2024-10-6 017 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:37
Chapter-3 But that was enough for Gerald, overwhelmed at his unbelievable luck in actually marrying her. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:37
Chapter-3 For when Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a gentle shell. Bruce 2024-10-6 09 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:36
Chapter-3 That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life��the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it. Bruce 2024-10-6 012 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:36
Chapter-3 But Scarlett was wrong, for, years before, Ellen Robillard of Savannah had giggled as inexplicably as any fifteen-year-old in that charming coastal city and whispered the long nights through with friends, exchanging confidences, telling all secr Bruce 2024-10-6 08 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:36
Chapter-3 Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything. Bruce 2024-10-6 07 Bruce 2024-10-6 15:36
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