To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little el ...
She told herself that the child was merely full of life and there was still time in which to teach her the arts and graces of being attractive to men. ...
To Mammy's indignation, her preferred playmates were not her demure sisters or the well-brought-up Wilkes girls but the negro children on the plantati ...
With her younger daughters, she had success, for Suellen was so anxious to be attractive she lent an attentive and obedient ear to her mother's teachi ...
She had been reared in the tradition of great ladies, which had taught her how to carry her burden and still retain her charm, and she intended that h ...