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There had been duels fought over Grandma, and the...

There had been duels fought over Grandma, and the fashions of her day had been scandalous, with ladies deliberately wetting their thin muslin gowns so that they'd cling to their legs And the rest of them, too, from the look of things in the portrait I should blush just from thinking the kind of things I'm thinking, Scarlett told herselfBut she looked back over her shoulder at the portrait as she left the dining roomI wonder what she was really like? The sitting room showed the signs of poverty and constant use by a young family; Scarlett could hardly recognize the velvet-covered settee where she had posed herself prettily when beaux proposed And everything had been rearranged, tooShe had to admit that Suellen had the right to chanel black and white purse fix the house to suit herself, but it rankled all the sameIt wasn't really Tara this wayShe grew more and more despondent as she went from room to room Nothing was the sameEvery time she came home there were more changes, and more shabbinessOh, why did Will have to be so stubborn! All the furniture needed recovering, the curtains were practically rags, and you could see the floor right through the carpetsShe could get new things for Tara if Will would let her Then she wouldn't have the heartsickness of seeing the things she remembered looking so pitifully wornIt should be mine! I'd take better care of itPa always said he'd leave Tara to meBut he never made a willThat's just like Pa, he never thought of tomorrow Scarlett frowned, but balenciaga bag made with goat leather she couldn't really be angry at her fatherNo one had ever stayed angry at Gerald 0 'Hara; he was like a lovable naughty child even when he was in hissixtiesThe one I'm mad at-still-is CarreenBaby sister or not, she was wrong to do what she did, and I'll never forgive her, neverShe was stubborn as a mule when she made up her mind to go into the convent, and I accepted it finallyBut she never told me she was going to use her one-third share of Tara as her dowry for the conventShe should have told me! I would have found the money somehowThen I'd have two-thirds ownershipNot the whole thing, like it should be, but at least clear controlThen I'd have some say soInstead, I have to bite my tongue and watch while everything goes downhill gucci purses and let Suellen queen it over meI'm the one who saved Tara from the Yankees and the carpetbaggersIt is mine, no matter what the law says, and it'll be Wade's some day, I'll see to that, no matter what it takes Scarlett rested her head against the split leather covering on the old sofa in the small room from which Ellen O 'Hara had quietly ruled the plantationThere seemed to be a lingering trace of her mother's lemon verbena toilet water, even after all these years This was the peacefulness she had come to findNever mind the changes, the shabbinessTara was still Tara, still homeAnd the heart of it was here, in Ellen's roomA slamming door shattered the quietScarlett heard Ella and Susie coming through the hall, quarrelling about tiffany replica somethingShe had to get away, she couldn't face noise and conflictShe wanted to see the fields anyhowThey were all healed, rich and red the way they'd always been She walked quickly across the weedy lawn and past the cow shed She'd never get over her aversion to cows, not if she lived to be a hundred Nasty sharp-horned thingsAt the edge of the first field she leaned on the fence and breathed in the rich ammonia odor of newly turned earth and manureFunny how in the city manure was so smelly and messy, while in the country it was a farmer's perfumeWill sure is a good farmerHe's the best thing that ever happened to TaraNo matter what I might have done, we'd never have made it if he hadn't stopped on his way home to Florida and decided to chanel handbags on sale

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