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The War was over, but they weren't defeatedThey...
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The War was over, but they
weren't defeatedThey would never be defeated, no matter what the
damn Yankees didNot so long as they stuck togetherAnd kept
everyone else out of their closed circleThe military occupation and
the outrages of Reconstruction tested their mettle, but they held
fast
One by one the other states of the Confederacy were readmitted to the
Union, their state governments restored to the state's populationBut
not South CarolinaAnd especially not CharlestonMore than nine
years after the end of the War, armed soldiers patrolled the old
streets, enforcing curfewConstantly changing regulations covered
everything from the price of paper to the licensing of marriages and
funerals
Charleston became more and more derelict outwardly, but ever
stronger
in its determination to preserve the old ways of lifeThe Bachelors'
Cotillion was reborn, with a new generation to chanel watches fill the gaps caused by
the carnage of Bull Run, Antietam, and ChancellorsvilleAfter their
working hours as clerks or laborers, former plantation owners took the
streetcars or walked to the outskirts of the city to rebuild the
two-mile oval of the Charleston Race Course and to plant the
blood-soaked churned mud of the land around it with grass seed
bought
with combined widow's mitesLittle by little, by symbols and by
inches, Charlestonians were regaining the essence of their beloved lost
worldBut there was no room in it for anyone who didn't belong
there
couldn't hide her amazement at the orders Scarlett gave her when she
was unlacing for bed the first night in the Butler house"Take the
green walking-out costume I wore this morning and give it a good
brushingThen take off every speck of trimming, including the gold
buttons, and sew on some plain black buttons instead
"Where I louis vuitton epi bag going to find any black buttons, Miss Scarlett?"
"Don't bother me with fool questions like thatButler's
maid-what's her name? CelieAnd wake me up tomorrow at five
o'clock
"Five o'clock?"
"Are you deaf? You heard meI want that green outfit
ready to put on when I get up Scarlett sank gratefully into the
feather mattress and down pillows on the big bedIt had been an
over-full, over-emotional dayMeeting Miss Eleanor, then shopping,
then that silly Confederate Home meeting, then Rhett appearing from
nowhere with the silver tea service Her hand stretched over to the
empty space beside herShe wanted him there, but perhaps it was
better to wait a few days, until she was really accepted in
Charleston
That miserable Ross! She wouldn't think about him or those horrible
things he'd said and doneMiss Eleanor had denied him the house,
and
she wouldn't have to see him, she hoped not ever d
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