Pierre Robillard'south jerked,
a travesty of a... Pierre Robillard'south jerked,
a travesty of a smile"You don't mind sleeping in the parlor with the
pig, I take it Scarlett's cheeks reddened
She'd always known her grandfather disapproved of her mother's
marriageHe'd never accepted Gerald O'Hara in his houseShe
wanted
to defend her father, and her cousins, from his prejudice against the
IrishIf only she didn't have this terrible suspicion that the
children brought the baby pigs into the house to play with"Never
mind," said her grandfatherIt's a matter of
supreme indifference to me He closed his eyes, dismissing her from
his sight and his attentionScarlett refrained with difficulty from
slamming the door when she left the roomWhat a horrid old man!
Still, she had gotten what she wantedShe smiled at her
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"Everything's all right," she saidFor the remainder of the morning,
and all afternoon Scarlett cheerfully went along with her aunts to
leave their cards at the houses of all their friends and acquaintances
in Savannah they hand-lettered in the lower left corner
"Pour prendre conget take leave The custom had never beon
observed
in Atlanta, but in the older cities of coastal Georgia and South
Carolina, it was a required ritual
Scarlett thought it a great waste of time to inform people you were
leavingEspecially when, only a handful of days earlier, her aunts
had worn themselves out leaving cards at the same houses to inform
the
same people that they had arrivedShe was sure that most of those
people hadn't bothered to leave cards at the Robillard house
Certainly there had been
omega constellation watch crystal no callersOn Saturday she insisted on
going
to the train depot with them, and she saw to it that Pansy put their
valises exactly where they wanted them, in full view so that no one
could steal themShe kissed their papery wrinkled cheeks, returned
to
the busy platform, and waved goodbye while the train chugged out of
the
station"We'll stop at the bakery on Broughton Street before we go
back to the house," she told the driver of the rented carriageIt was
still a long time until dinnerShe sent Pansy to the kitchen to order
a pot of coffee and then took off her hat and glovesHow lovely and
quiet the house was with the aunts goneBut that was definitely a
film of dust on the hall tableShe'd have to have a few words with
JeromeThe other servants, too, if necessaryShe
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have things looking shabby when Rhett arrivedAs if he'd read her
mind, Jerome appeared behind herWhy on earth
couldn't the man make a decent amount of noise when he walked?
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"This message come for you, Miss Scarlett He held out a silver tray
with a telegram on itRhett! Scarlett grabbed the thin paper with
too-eager, clumsy fingersSee to my coffee,
please The butler was too curious by half, in her opinionShe
didn't want him reading over her shoulderAs soon as he was gone,
she
ripped open the messageIt was from Uncle
Henry
The normally thrifty old lawyer must have been deeply agitated
because
the telegram was wastefully wordyI HAVE NOT AND WILL NOT HAVE
ANYTHING WHATS0EVER TO DO WITH INVESTING 0R 0THERWISE
INV0LVING MYSELF
WITH THE MONEY THAT WAS
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IT IS IN YOUR
ACC0UNT AT YOUR BANK STOP I HAVE ExPRESSED MY REPUGNANCE
FOR THE
CIRCUMSTANCES SURR0UNDING THIS TRANSACTI0N STOP DO NOT
ExPECT ANY HELP
FROM ME STOP Scarlett sank onto a chair when she read itHer knees
were like water, and her heart was racingThe old fool! A half
million dollars-that was probably more money than the bank had seen
since before the War
What was to stop the officers from just pocketing it and closing the
bank? Banks were still closing all over the country, it was in the
paper all the timeShe'd have to go to Atlanta at once, change the
money to gold, add it to her safe boxBut that would take daysEven
if there was a train today, she wouldn't get to the bank before
Monday
Plenty of time for her money to
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