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said, 'I want to give you a present" Might as... |
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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 quaked'I'll not
touch it, Katie Scarlett O 'Hara" Colum grabbed her arm and pulled
her outside the house, through the crowd, behind the barnThen he
let
himself laugh"You're always surprising me, Scarlett darlingYou've
just made Daniel into a giant-but whether it's a giant fool black gucci bag or a giant
too noble to take advantage of a fool woman, I don't know Scarlett
laughed with him"I was just getting the hang of it, Colum, you
should have let me stay Suddenly she put her hand over her mouth
How could she be laughing at Uncle Daniel's wake? Colum took her
wrist, lowered her hand"It's all right," he said, "a wake's supposed
to celebrate a man's life and the importance of him to all who come
Laughter's part of it, as much as lamentation Daniel O'Hara was
buried on ThursdayThe funeral was almost as big as Old Katie
Scarlett's had beenScarlett led the procession to the grave his sons
had dug in the ancient walled graveyard at Ballyhara that she and
Colum
had found and men's gold gucci watches cleaned upScarlett filled a leather pouch with soil
from Daniel's graveWhen she spread it on her father's grave, it
would be almost as if he was buried near his brother
When the funeral was over, the family went to the Big House for
refreshmentsScarlett's cook was delighted to have an occasion to
show offLong trestle tables stretched the length of the unused
drawing room and libraryThey were covered with hams, geese,
chickens, beef, mountains of breads and cakes, gallons of porter, bar
reached height to speak quietly"We have need of The O'Hara," said
aniel's son Thomas"Will you come to the house tomorrow after
breakfast?" asked Patrick's son Joe"What's it about?"
"We'll tell you omega de ville watch ladies tomorrow when there's quiet for you to think The
question was: who should inherit Daniel's farm? Because of the
long-past crisis when Old Patrick died, two O'Hara cousins were
claiming the rightLike his brother Gerald, Daniel had never made a
willIt's Tara all over again, thought Scarlett, and the decision was
easy
Daniel's son Seamus had worked hard on the farm for thirty years
while
Patrick's son Sean lived with Old Katie Scarlett and did nothing
Scarlett gave the farm to SeamusLike Pa should have given Tara to
meShe was The O 'Hara, so there was no argument
Scarlett felt elated, confident that she had given more justice to
Seamus than anyone had ever given herThe next day a chanel bags for cheep far-fromyoung
woman left a basket of eggs on the doorstep of the Big House
Fitz found out that she was Seamus' sweetheart
She'd been waiting for almost twenty years for him to ask her to
marry
himAn hour after Scarlett's decision, he had"That's very sweet,"
Scarlett said, "but I hope they don't get married real soonI'll
never get to America at the rate I'm going She now had a cabin
booked on a ship sailing April 26, a year exactly after the date she
was originally supposed to have ended her "vacation" in IrelandThe
ship wasn't the luxurious Brian BoaIt wasn't even a proper
passenger
shipBut Scarlett had her own superstition-if she delayed again until
after May Day, she'd somehow never leave rolex watch for sale at |
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