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"There's plenty, and you know it, RhettYes, they're nice people and
Townsend's kin, but that doesn't alter the fact that Hannah's a
dyed-in-the-wool YankeeI'm afraid she'll be pouted to death
"Be what?" asked ScarlettCharlestonians had a
particularly vicious and cunning game, developed after the WarThey
treated outsiders with so much graciousness and consideration that
their politeness became a weapon"Visitors end up feeling as if
they're wearing shoes for the first time in their livesIt's said
that only the strongest ever recover from the experienceI hope we
won't be treated to a display of it tonight
The Chinese never developed a torture to match it, although they're a
very subtle people
"Rhett! Please stop," begged his celebrity chanel handbags mother
Scarlett said nothingThat's what they've been doing to me, she
thought grimlyI don't have to put up with
Charleston much longerAfter the turn onto Meeting Street the
carriage moved into place at the end of a long line of carriages
One by one they stopped to release passengers, then slowly moved
on
It'll be over before we get there at this rate, Scarlett thoughtShe
looked out the window at people walking, the ladies followed by their
maids carrying their slipper bagsI wish we'd walked, tooIt would
be lovely to be out in the warm air instead of cooped up in this stuffy
little spaceShe was startled by the sharp clanging of a streetcar
bell to their leftHow can there be a streetcar running? she
wonderedThey always stopped at nine o'clockShe louis vuitton white speedy 35 heard the bells
from StMichael's steeple ring two full rounds
"Isn't it nice to see the streetcar with nobody on it but people
dressed for a ball?" said Eleanor Butler"Did you know, Scarlett,
that they always stop running the cars early on the night of the Saint
Cecilia so they can scrub them out before they make the special runs
to
take people to the ball?"
"I didn't know that, Miss EleanorHow do people get home?"
"Oh, they run another special at two when the ball's over
"What if somebody wants to ride who isn't going to the ball?"
"They can't, of courseNobody would even think of itEverybody
knows the cars don't run after nine o'clock"Mama,
you sound like the duchess in Alice in Wonderland" Eleanor Butler
began
to laugh, too"I rolex watches online suppose I do," she sputtered cheerfully, then
laughed even harderShe was still laughing when the carriage moved
forward and stopped and the door was pulled openScarlett looked
out
onto a scene that made her catch her breathThis was the way a ball
should oe be! Tall black iron poles held a pair of enormous lanterns
brightly lit with a half dozen gas jetsThey illuminated the deep
portico and towering white columns of a temple-like building set back
from the street behind a tall iron fenceA gleaming white canvas
walkway led from the scoured white marble carriage block to the
portico's stepsOver walkway and block a white canvas awning had
been
erected"Just think," she said, marvelling, "you could go from your
carriage to the Ball in the black gucci bags pouring rain and not a drop of water
would touch you"That's the idea," Rhett agreed, "but it's never been
testedIt never rains on the night of the Saint Cecilia
"Rhett!" Eleanor Butler was genuinely shockedScarlett smiled at
Rhett, pleased that he could make fun of something that he took as
seriously as this ballHe'd told her all about it, how many years and
years it had been going on-everything in Charleston seemed to have
been
around for at least a hundred years-how it was completely run by
men
Only men could be members of the Society"Step down, Scarlett,"
said
Rhett, "you should feel right at home hereThis building is the
Hibernian HallInside you'll see a plaque with the harp of Ireland
in best gold paint
Don't be rude," scolded his gucci bags china mot |