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"I'm not pouting and whining! And I'll thank you...
10:40 AM, Wednesday, February 3, 2010
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"I'm not pouting and whining! And I'll thank you not to talk to me as
if I was a child!" Scarlett pulled in her lower lipShe hated it
when Rhett made her feel foolish
"What was that quarry we stopped at?"
"That, my dear, was the salvation of Charleston and my passport back
into the bosom of my peopleIt is a phosphate mineThere are
dozens
of them scattered along both rivers He lit his cigar with prolonged
appreciation and the smoke spiraled upward to the porthole"I see
your eyes gleaming, ScarlettIt's not the same as a gold mineYou
can't make coins or jewelry out of phosphateBut, ground and
washed
and treated with certain chemicals, it makes the best quick-acting
fertilizer in the worldThere are customers waiting for as much of it
as we can cartier pasha c watches produce
"So you're getting richer than everBut, more to the point, this is respectable, Charleston
moneyI can spend as much of my ill-gotten, speculator profit as I
like now without disapprovalEveryone can tell themselves that it
comes from phosphates, even though the mine is puny in size
"Why don't you make it bigger?"
"I don't have toIt serves my purpose just as it isI have a
foreman who doesn't cheat me much, a couple of dozen laborers who
work
almost as much as they loal, and respectabilityI can spend my time
and money and sweat on what I care about, and right now, that's
restoring the gardens
Scarlett was annoyed almost past bearingWasn't that just like Rhett
to fall into a tub of butter? And to waste the chance? No matter how
rich he was, dolce
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