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Rhett! here! Bart must have written him...
| Rhett! here! Bart must have written him about
the stables, selling up, about Dijonhe must be doing what I was
going to he came all the way from America to help a friendOr to get
a winner for the next Charleston racesEven poor, dear,
tragic Bart doesn't matter, may God - meI'm going to see Rhett
Scarlett realized that she was rur? running, pushing people aside
without apologyTo the devil everyone, everythingRhett was here,
only a few hundred - away"Box eight," she gasped at a stewardc forced herself to breathe slowly until she thought she
must normalNo one could see her heart pounding, sterling silver chanel inspired jewelry could they?
climbed
the two steps into the bunting-trimmed boxOut on great turfed oval
twelve brightly shirted riders were whipping horses towards the
finish
All around Scarlett people were urging on the horsesShe didn't hear
a thingRhett was watching? the race through field glassesEven ten
feet
away she could smell the whiskey on himhe was rocking on his feet
Drunk?
Not R - he could always hold hisliquorhad Bart's disaster upset him
much? Look at me, her heart beggedPut the glasses down and - at
me
Let me see your eyes when you say my Let me see something for me
in
your discount cartier watches eyesCheering and groans hailed the end of
the raceRhett low the glasses with a shaky hand"Damn, Bart,
that's my fourth loser in a row," he laughed"hello, Rhett," she
saidHis head snapped, and she saw his dark eyesThey held
nothing
for her, nothing but anger His eyes raked her
from her kidskin boots to her egret-plumed hat"You are certainly
looking-expensive he turned abruptly towards John Morland"You
should have warned me, Bart, so I could stay in the bar
And he sent Morland staggering as he pushed out of the box on the
side
away from ScarlettHer eyes followed him hopelessly as he plunged
into chanel tote bag the crowdsThen they filled with tearsJohn Morland patted her
shoulder clumsily"I say, Scarlett, I apologize for RhettNe's had
too much to drinkThat's two of us you've had to deal with today
Not much fun for you Is that what Bart called it? "Not much fun" to be
trampled on? I wasn't asking for muchJust to say hello, say my
nameWhat gives Rhett the right to be angry and insulting? Can't I
marry again after he threw me out like trash? Damn himDamn him
straight to Nell! Why is it fine and dandy for him to divorce me so he
can marry a proper Charleston girl and have proper Charleston gucci mens wallets babies
to
grow up into more proper Charlestonians, but it's oh-sodisgraceful for
me to marry again and give his child all the things that he should be
the one to give her"I hope he falls over his own drunken feet and
breaks his neck," she said to Bart Morland"Don't be too hard on
Rhett, Scarletthe had a real tragedy last spring
I'm ashamed to feel so sorry for myself about the stables when there
are people like Rhett with troubles like hisI told you about the
baby, didn't I? Beastly awful thing happenedHis wife died having
it, then the baby only lived for four days
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Posted: 8:02 AM, Wednesday, February 10, 2010 |
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