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I'd have been tempted to go, but not tempted...
Posted on Saturday, March 6, 2010 at 8:07 AM
I'd have been tempted to go, but not tempted enough to miss the
Castle
SeasonIt hardly seems possible that I once thought Atlanta was a
big
cityI'll see if Cat would like to go to Dublin with me after New
Year'sSims said the fittings would only take a few hours in
the morningsI wonder what they do with those poor zoo animals in
the
winter? "Nave you another cup in that pot, Mistress O 'hara? It was
chilly ride over here Scarlett stared up at the Earl of Fenton, her
mouth gaping - surpriseOh, Lord, I must look a sight, I hardly even
brushed hair this morning"I told my butler to say I'm not at home,"
blurted"But I came the back wayMay I sit down?"
"I'm amazed you wait to be asked
I've only got one cup, balenciaga knock off motorcycle bag seeing I wasn't at home to visitorsFenton
tugged the bell pull, took a chair close to hers"I'll your cup if you
don't mindIt will take a week for another to _ hereSo there!" Scarlett blurtedThen she burst laughing
"I haven't said 'so there' in twenty yearsI'm surpr I didn't stick
out my tongue, tooYou're a very irritating Milord
"May I have some coffee?"
"The pot's empty Fenton looked a little less
overbearing when he laughed as did thenScarlett visited her cousin
Molly that afternoon, throwing that socially ambitious creature into
such a frenzy of gentility that Scarlett's oflhand questions about the
Earl of Fenton were barely noticedThe visit was very shortMolly
didn't know anything at all, save that the Earl's gucci women decision to spend
some time at his adamstown estate had shocked his servants and his
agent
They kept the house and stables ready at all times, just in case he
might choose to come there, but this was the first time in nearly five
years that he had arrivedThe staff were now all preparing for a
house party, said MollyThere had been forty guests when the Earl
last came, all with servants of their own, and horsesThe Earl's
hounds and their attendants had come, tooThere had been two
weeks of
hunting, and a hunt BallAt Daniel's cottage, the O'hara men
commented on the Earl's arrival with bitter humorFenton had picked
his time badly, they saidThe fields were too dry and hard to be
ruined by the hunters, like last chanel j12 watches timeThe drought had been there
before him and his friendsScarlett returned to Ballyhara no wiser
than she'd left itFenton had said nothing to her about a hunt, or
about a house partyIf he gave one, and she wasn't invited, it would
be a terrible slap in the faceAfter dinner she wrote a half dozen
notes to friends she'd made during the Season"Such a fuss in these
parts," she scribbled, "about Lord Fenton popping up at his place near
here
Ne's been absentee for so many years that even the shopkeepers don't
have any good gossip about him She smiled as she sealed the notes
If that doesn't bring out all the skeletons in hiscloset, I don't know
what willThe next morning she dressed with care in one of swiss replica rolex watch the
gowns
she'd worn at her drawing rooms in DublinI don't care a fig about
looking attractive for that irritating man, she told herself, but I
will not let him sneak up on me again when I'm not ready for guests
The coffee grew cold in the potFenton found her in the fields
exercising Comet that afternoonScarlett was wearing her Irish
clothes and cloak, riding astride"Now sensible you are, Scarlett,"
he said"I've always been convinced that sidesaddles are ruinous to a
good horse, and that looks like a fine oneWould you care to match
him against mine in a short race?"
"I'd be delighted," Scarlett said, with honeyed sweetness"But the
drought left everything so parched that the dust behind me will
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