@@@@@Scarlett was a different
@@@@@Scarlett was a different personAt
receptions and balls she was polite but abstractedThe
belle-temptress had retiredShe no longer accepted invitations to
play whist, and she'd stopped calling on the ladies at whose at-home
days she had become a fixture"I'm all in favor of honoring God,"
Sally Brewton said one day"I even give up something I really love
for LentBut I think Scarlett's going too far
Emma Anson disagreed"It makes me think much better of her than I
did
beforeYou know I thought you were foolish to sponsor her the way
you
did, SallyShe was obviously an ignorant, vain little climberNow
I'm willing to eat my words
There's something admirable about anyone with serious religious
feelings Wednesday morning in the second week
of
Scarlett's siege was dark and cold and rainy"I just can't walk all
the way to the convent through this downpour," she moaned, "I'll ruin
my only pair of boots She thought with longing of the Butlers'
former coachman, EzekielHe had showed up, like a magical genie
from
a bottle, on the two rainy nights they were going out
All this Charleston pretense is crazy and disgusting, but I'd be glad
to put up with it today if I could just ride in a nice warm dry
carriageAnd I have to go, so I will"Mother Superior
left this morning early to go to Georgia for a meeting at the Order's
school there," said the nun who opened the convent's doorNo one
knew
exactly how long the meeting would lastPerhaps one day, or several,
or maybe a week or moreI don't have a week or more, Scarlett
shouted
inwardly, I can't even afford to waste a dayShe plodded back to the
house through the rain"Throw away these damned boots," she
ordered
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