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Colum! Say I don't have to go to the wake; it's...

Colum! Say I don't have to go to the wake; it's morbid, I don't think I could bear it "You must go, Scarlett Scarlett could hear the keening even before the house was sight She looked at Colum with desperation, but his face was setThere was a crowd of people outside the low doorSo many had come to mourn Daniel that there wasn't enough room for all of them Scarlett heard the words "The O 'Hara," saw a path open for her She wished with all her heart that the honor would go awayBut she walked in with her head bent, determined to do the right thing by Daniel"He's in the parlor," said SeamusScarlett steeled herself The eerie wailing was coming from there Tall thick gucci purses candles burned on tables at the head and foot of the big bedDaniel lay on top of the coverlet in a white garment trimmed in blackHis work-worn hands were crossed on his chest, the beads of a rosary between them"Why did you leave us? ochon! C::lion, Ochon, Ubagon O!" The woman swayed from side to side as she lamented Scarlett recognized her cousin Peggy, who lived in the villageShe knelt by the bed to say a prayer for DanielBut the keening filled her mind with such confusion that she couldn't think The plaintive, primitive cry twisted her heart, frightened herShe got to her feet and went into the kitchenShe looked with disbelief at the mass of men and women that omega seamaster watch filled the roomThey were eating and drinking and talking as if nothing unusual was happening at all The air was thick with smoke from the men's clay pipes in spite of the open door and windowsScarlett approached the group around Father Danaher"Yes, he woke to call people by name and to make his end with a clean soulAh, it was a grand confession he made, I've never heard a betterA fine man Daniel O'Hara wasWe'll not see his like again in our lifetimes"And do you not remember, Jim, the time Daniel and his brother Patrick, God rest his soul, took the Englishman's prize pig and carried it down into the peat bog to farrow? Twelve little ones and all of them rolex 18k watches squealing, and the sow as fierce as any wild boar? The land agent was shaking and the Englishman cursing and all the rest of the world laughing at the show Jim O 'Gorman laughed, swatted the tale teller's shoulder with his big blacksmith's hand"I do not remember, Ted O'Hara, no more do you, and that's the truth of itWe were neither of us born when the adventure of the sow had its happening, and well you know itYou heard it from your father same as I heard it from" "But wouldn't it be a fine thing to have seen, Jim? Your cousin Daniel was a grand man, and that's the truth of it Yes, he was, thought ScarlettShe moved around, listening to a score of stories of Daniel's gucci black bag life"And tell us, if you will, Katie Scarlett, about your uncle refusing the farm with the hundred cattle you gave him"This was the way of it," she beganA dozen eager listeners leaned toward herNow what am I going to say? "I I said to him, 'llncle Daniel' I said, 'I want to give you a present" Might as well make it good"I said, 'I've got a farm with a quick stream and a bog of its own and a hundred bullocks and fifty milk cows and three hundred geese and twenty-five pigs and " The audience sighed at the grandeurScarlett felt inspiration on her tongue"'llncle Daniel,' I said, 'this is all for you, and a bag of gold besides But his voice thundered at me till I newest dior bag qu

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