She loved horses and talked
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better than any man in the County. Colts overflowed the paddock onto the front
lawn, even as her eight children overflowed the rambling house on the hill, and
colts and sons and daughters and hunting dogs tagged after her as she went about
the plantation. She credited her horses, especially her red mare, Nellie, with
human intelligence; and if the cares of the house kept her busy beyond the time
when she expected to take her daily ride, she put the
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said: “Give Nellie a handful and tell her I’ll be out terrectly.”
Except on rare occasions she always wore her riding habit, for whether she rode
or not she always expected to ride and in that expectation put on her habit upon
arising. Each morning, rain or shine, Nellie was saddled and walked up and down
in front of the house, waiting for the time when Mrs. Tarleton could spare an
hour away from her
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women duties. But Fairhill was a difficult plantation to manage and
spare time hard to get, and more often than not Nellie walked up and down
riderless hour after hour, while Beatrice Tarleton went through the day with the
skirt of her habit absently looped over her arm and six inches of shining boot
showing below it.
Today, dressed in dull black silk over unfashionably
narrow hoops, she still looked as though in her habit, for the dress was as
severely tailored as her riding costume
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small black hat with Ha long black plume perched over one warm, twinkling, brown
eye was a replica of the battered old hat she used for hunting.
She
waved her whip when she saw Gerald and drew her dancing pair of red horses to a
halt, and the four girls in the back of the carriage leaned out and gave such
vociferous cries of greeting that the team pranced in alarm. To a casual
observer it would seem that years had passed since
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outlet the Tarletons had seen the O’Haras, instead of only two
days. But they were a sociable family and liked their neighbors, especially the
O’Hara girls. That is, they liked Suellen and Carreen. No girl in the County,
with the possible exception of the empty-headed Cathleen Calvert, really liked
Scarlett.
In summers, the County averaged a barbecue and ball nearly
every week, but to the red-haired Tarletons with their enormous capacity for
enjoying themselves, each barbecue and each ball was as exciting as if it
were
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quartette, so crammed into the carriage that their hoops and flounces overlapped
and their parasols nudged and bumped together above their wide leghorn sun hats,
crowned with roses and dangling with black velvet chin ribbons. All shades of
red hair were represented beneath these hats, Hetty’s plain red hair, Camilla’s
strawberry blonde, Randa’s coppery auburn and small Betsy’s carrot
top.