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Mustn't rush him, she knew, or she'd never find...Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Mustn't rush him, she knew, or she'd never find out what she wanted to knowScarlett walked slowly beside the old black servant, listening to his reminiscences of "Mist' Gerald" and Mammy and the early days at TarShe'd forgotten Pork had been with her father come to Tara with Gerald when there was nothing there except a burned-out old building and fields gone to brushWhy, Pork must be seventy or moreLittle by little, she extracted the information she wantedRhett had gone back to Charleston, to stay Pork had packed all of Rhett's clothes and sent them to the depot for shippingIt was his final duty as Rhett's valet, he was retired now, with a parting bonus that was big enough for him to have a place of his own anywhere he chanel purse styles liked"I can do for my family, too," Pork said proudlyDilcey would never need to work again, and Prissy would have something to offer any man who wanted to marry her"Prissy ain't no beauty, Miss Scarlett, and she's going on twenty-five years old, but with a 'heritance behind her, she can catch herself a husband easy as a young pretty girl what got no money Scarlett smiled and smiled and agreed with Pork that "Mist' Rhett" was a fine gentlemanInside she was ragingThat fine gentle- man's generosity was making a real hash of things for her Who was going to take care of Wade and Ella, with Prissy gone? And how the devil was she going to manage to find a good nursemaid for Beau? He'd just lost his mother, and his father was half crazy fake vintage chanel wallet with grief, and now the only one in that house with any sense was leaving, tooShe wished she could pick up and leave, too, just leave everything and everybody behindMother of God! I came to Tara to get some rest, to straighten out my life, and all I found was more problems to take care ofCan't I ever get any peace? Will quietly and firmly provided Scarlett with that respiteHe sent her to bed and gave orders that she wasn't to be disturbedShe slept for almost eighteen hours, and she woke with a clear plan of where to begin"I hope you slept well," said Suellen when Scarlett came down for breakfastHer voice was sickeningly honeyed"You must have been awfully tired, after all you've been through The truce was over, now that Mammy newest dior bag was dead Scarlett's eyes glittered dangerouslyShe knew Suellen was thinking of the disgraceful scene she'd made, begging Rhett not to leave her But when she answered, her words were equally sweet"I hardly felt my head touch the pillow, and I was goneThe country air is so soothing and refreshing You nasty thing, she added in her headThe bedroom that she still thought of as hers now belonged to Susie, Suellen's oldest child, and Scarlett had felt like a strangerSuellen knew it, too, Scarlett was sureBut it didn't matterShe needed to stay on good terms with Suellen if she was going to carry out her planShe smiled at her sister"What's so funny, Scarlett? Do I have a spot on my nose or something?" Suellen's voice set Scarlett's chanel purse for cheap teeth on edge, but she held on to her smileI was just remembering a silly dream I had last nightI dreamt we were all children again, and that Mammy was switching my legs with a switch from the peach tree Do you remember how much those switches stung?" Suellen laughedLune uses them on the girlsI can almost feel the sting on my own legs when she does Scarlett watched her sister's face"I'm surprised I don't have a million scars to this day," she said"I was such a horrid little girlI don't know how you and Carreen could put up with me She buttered a biscuit as if it were her only concern? Suellen looked suspicious"You did torment us, ScarlettAnd somehow you managed to make the fights come out looking like our faultEven when we got cheap louis vuitton handbags o

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