| Her face and eyes were shining with excitementScarlett's
green eyes were suddenly calculating"I'll bet you don't have parades
and fireworks in your village, KathleenYou'll be sorry if you don't
stay in Savannah
The girl smiled radiantly"I'll remember it forever and tell the tale
by all the hearths of all the housesOnce home, it will be a grand
thing to have seen America
There was no budging the silly girlBroughton Street was lined with
people, all of them sporting greenScarlett laughed aloud when she
saw one familyWith all those scrubbed-up children wearing green
bows
or scarves or feathers in their hats, they were just like the
O'Haras
Except that they were all black"Didn't I tell you everyone chanel classic jumbo flap bag is Irish
today?" Jamie said with a grin"Even the
loo-las are wearing the green," she said, jerking her head toward a
pair nearbyScarlett craned her neck to seeGood grief! It was her
grandfather's stuffy lawyer and a boy who must be his sonBoth of
them
were wearing green cravatsShe looked curiously up and down the
street at the smiling people, searching for other familiar faces
There was Mary Telfair with a group of ladies, all of them with green
ribbons on their hatsAnd Jerome! Where had he found a green coat,
for pity's sake? Surely her grandfather wasn't here; please, God,
don't let him beHe'd manage to make the sun stop shiningNo,
Jerome was with a black woman wearing a green sashFancy louis vuitton handbags that,
old
prune-face Jerome with a girlfriend! At least twenty years younger,
tooA street vendor was handing out lemonade and coconut candy
cakes
to each O'Hara in turn, starting with the eager childrenWhen he got
to her, Scarlett accepted with a smile and bit into the candyShe was
eating on the street! No lady would do that, even if she were dying of
starvationTake that, Grandfather! she thought, delighted by her
own
wickednessThe coconut was fresh, moist, sweetScarlett enjoyed it
very much, even though it lost its thrilling defiance when she saw that
Miss Telfair was nibbling on something that she was holding between
her
kid-gloved thumb and forefinger"I still say the cowboy in the green
hat was pasha cartier the best," Mary Kate insisted
"He did all those fancy things with the rope, and he was so
handsome
"You just say that because he smiled at us," Helen said scornfully
Ten years old was too young to be sympathetic with the romantic
dreams
of fifteen"The best was the float with the leprechauns dancing on
it
"Those weren't leprechauns, silly
There aren't any leprechauns in America
"They were dancing around a big bag of goldNobody would have a
bag
of gold except leprechauns
"You're such a child, HelenThey were boys in costumes is all
Couldn't you see that the ears were false? One of them had fallen
off Maureen intervened before the argument could get out of hand
"It was a grand parade, every bit of omega seamaster titanium watch itCome along, girls, and hold
on to Jacky's hand Strangers the day before, strangers again the
day
after, on Saint Patrick's Day people joined hands and danced, joined
voices and sangThey shared the sun and the air and the music and
the
streets"It's wonderful," Scarlett said when she tasted a chicken
drumstick from one of the food stallsAnd, "It's wonderful," she said
when she saw the green chalk shamrocks on the brick paths of
Chatham
Square
"It's wonderful," about the mighty granite eagle with a green ribbon
around its neck on the Pulaski Monument"What a wonderful,
wonderful,
wonderful day," she cried, and she spun around and around before she
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