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Posted on Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 2:00 PM
At least call it a kilt They smiled
companionably at one anotherThen Rhett resumed the questioning
Alicia remembered a great many details once she began to thinkThe
soldier was young-very young indeedwith the ungainly movements of
a boy
who had not gotten accustomed to the spurt of growthHe was very
thin, tooThe uniform hung loosely on hisframeHis wrists showed
clearly below the sleeve binding; the uniform might not have been his
at
allHis hair was dark-"not raven like yours, Rhett, and by the way the
touch of gray is extremely becoming; no, his share must have been
brown
and looked darker in the shadows Yes, well cut and almost tiffany's bean necklace certainly
undressedShe would have smelled Macassar oilBit by bit Alicia
pieced together her memoriesThen her words faltered"You know
who
it is, don't you, Alicia?"
"I must be wrongYou have a son the right age-about fourteen or
fifteen-and you're sure to know his friendsAs soon as I heard about
this I thought it had to be a Charleston boyDo you really believe a
Yankee soldier would break into a woman's bedroom just to look at the
shape of her under a coverlet? This isn't a reign of terror, Alicia,
it's a miserable boy who's confused about what his body is doing to
him
He wants to know what a woman's body is like without corsets and
bustles, wants to know so much that he's diamond gucci watch black driven to stealing looks at
sleeping womenMost likely he's ashamed of his thoughts when he
sees
one fully dressed and awakeI suppose his father was killed in the War, and
there's no man ? for him to talk to
"He has an older brother-"
"Oh? Then maybe I'm wrongOr you're
thinking of the wrong boyTommy Cooper is the boy's nameHe's the tallest of
the lot of them, and the cleanestPlus he all but choked to death
when I said hello to him on the street two days after the incident in
my bedroomHis father died at Bull Run
His
brother's ten or eleven years older
"Do you mean Edward Cooper, the lawyer?" Alicia nodded"It's no
wonder, then
Cooper is on my discounted louis vuitton bags mother's Confederate Home committee; I met him at
the
houseHe's all but a eunuchTommy'll get no help from him
"He's not a eunuch at all, he's just too much in love with Anne
Hampton
to see his brother's needs
"As you like, AliciaBut I'm going to have a little conference ? with
Tommy
You'll scare the poor boy to death ? "The 'poor boy' is scaring the
female population of Charleston to deathThank God nothing has
really
happened yetNext time he might lose controlOr he might get
shot
Where does he live, Alicia?"
"Church Street, just around the corner from BroadIt's the one of the
brick houses on the south side of Saint Michael's AlleyBut Rhett,
what are you cartier pasha c watches going to say? You can't just walk in and haul Tommy out
by the scruff of the neck Alicia put her hands on each side of Rhett's face
and kissed him softly on the lips"It's good to have you back home
again, neighbor Rhett was sitting on the
Coopers' piazza drinking tea with Tommy's mother when the boy came
homeCooper introduced her son to Rhett, then sent him inside
to
leave his schoolbooks and wash his hands and faceButler is
going
to take you to histailor, TommyHe has a nephew in Aiken who's
growing as fast as you are and he needs you to try on things so he can
pick out a Christmas present that will fit Out of sight of the
adults Tommy grimaced wholesale chanel bags horribl
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