Gerald's sharp blue eyes noticed how efficiently his neighbors' houses were run and with what ease the smooth-haired wives in rustling skirts managed ...
The air was always thick with threats of selling slaves south and of direful whippings, but there never had been a slave sold from Tara and only one w ...
With unerring African instinct, the negroes had all discovered that Gerald had a loud bark and no bite at all, and they took shameless advantage of hi ...
As valet, he kept Gerald's bedroom in order, and, as butler, he served the meals with dignity and style, but otherwise he pretty well let matters foll ...
Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after sever ...
The fat cook, a yard negro elevated by necessity to the kitchen, never had the meals on time, and the chambermaid, formerly a field hand, let dust acc ...