For a brief moment she
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discount thought what a fool this old man was, to fight for a state
which had taken forty years from his life. Georgia had taken his youth and his
middle years for a crime that was no crime to him, yet he had freely given a leg
and an eye to Georgia. The bitter words Rhett had spoken in the early days of
the war came back to her, and she remembered him saying he would never fight for
a society that
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outlet had made him an outcast. But when the emergency had arisen
he had gone off to fight for that same society, even as Archie had done. It
seemed to her that all Southern men, high or low, were sentimental fools and
cared less for their hides than for words which had no meaning.
She
looked at Archie’s gnarled old hands, his two pistols and his knife, and fear
pricked her again. Were there other ex-convicts at large,
cheap uggs
online like Archie, murderers, desperadoes, thieves, pardoned for
their crimes, in the name of the Confederacy? Why, any stranger on the street
might be a murderer! If Frank ever learned the truth about Archie, there would
be the devil to pay. Or if Aunt Pitty—but the shock would kill Pitty. And as for
Melanie—Scarlett almost wished she could tell Melanie the truth about Archie. It
would serve her right for picking up trash and foisting it off
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“I’m—I’m glad
you told me, Archie. I—I won’t tell anyone. It would be a great shock to Mrs.
Wilkes and the other ladies if they knew.”
“Huh. Miz Wilkes knows. I
told her the night she fuss let me sleep in her cellar. You don’t think I’d let
a nice lady like her take me into her house not knowin’?”
“Saints
preserve us!” cried Scarlet, aghast
Melanie knew this man was a
murderer and a
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murderer at that and she hadn’t ejected him from her house. She had trusted her
son with him and her aunt and sister-in-law and all her friends. And she, the
most timid of females, had not been frightened to be alone with him in her
house.
“Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman. She lowed that I was
all right She ‘lowed that a liar allus kept on lyin’ and a thief kept on
stealin’
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outlet but folks don’t do more’n one murder in a lifetime. And she
reckoned as how anybody who’d fought for the Confederacy had wiped out anything
bad they’d done. Though I don’t hold that I done nothin’ bad, killin’ my wife.
... Yes, Miz Wilkes is right sensible, for a woman. ... And I’m tellin’ you, the
day you leases convicts is the day I quits you.”