Looking out the window, Scarlett saw Pork, who had left the room a moment before, holding high a flaring pine knot, while indistinguishable figures de ...
She rose suddenly from her chair at the sound of creaking wheels in the driveway and then sank down again as they went on around the house to the back ...
Of course, she did not intend to tell her mother what was so heavy on her heart, for Ellen would be shocked and grieved to know that a daughter of her ...
Gerald made a habit of dominating the conversation at mealtimes, and usually Scarlett, occupied with her own thoughts, scarcely heard him; but tonight ...
He had forgotten completely about his conversation with her that afternoon and was carrying on a monologue about the latest news from Fort Sumter, whi ...