“No, you ain’,” said Mammy
cheap uggs
online grimly. “Not while Ah got breaf. You eat dem cakes. Sop dem
in de gravy, honey.”
“I don’t think Yankee girls have to act like such
fools. When we were at Saratoga last year, I noticed plenty of them acting like
they had right good sense and in front of men, too.”
Mammy
snorted.
“Yankee gals! Yas’m, Ah guess dey speaks dey minds awright,
but Ah ain’ noticed many of dem gittin’ proposed ter at Saratoga.”
“But
Yankees must get married,”
discount ugg boots argued
Scarlett. “They don’t just grow. They must get married and have children.
There’s too many of them.”
“Men mahys dem fer dey money,” said Mammy
firmly.
Scarlett sopped the wheat cake in the gravy and put it in her
mouth. Perhaps there was something to what Mammy said. There must be something
in it, for Ellen said the same things, in different and more delicate words. In
fact, the mothers of all her
ugg boots discount
outlet girl friends impressed on their daughters the necessity of
being helpless, clinging, doe-eyed creatures. Really, it took a lot of sense to
cultivate and hold such a pose. Perhaps she had been too brash. Occasionally
she- had argued with Ashley and frankly aired her opinions. Perhaps this and her
healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail
Melanie. Perhaps if she changed her tactics— But she
cheap uggs
online felt that if Ashley succumbed to premeditated feminine
tricks, she could never respect him as she now did. Any man who was fool enough
to fall for a simper, a faint and an “Oh, how wonderful you are!” wasn’t worth
having. But they all seemed to like it.
If she had used the wrong
tactics with Ashley in the past—well, that was the past and done with. Today she
would use different ones,
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discount the right ones. She wanted him and she had only a few
hours in which to get him. If fainting, or pretending to faint, would do the
trick, then she would faint. If simpering, coquetry or empty-headedness would
attract him, she would gladly play the flirt and be more empty-headed than even
Cathleen Calvert. And if bolder measures were necessary, she would take them.
Today was the day!
There was no one to
discount
uggs for women tell Scarlett that her own personality,
frighteningly vital though it was, was more attractive than any masquerade she
might adopt. Had she been, told, she would have been pleased but unbelieving.
And the civilization of which she was a part would have been unbelieving too,
for at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine
naturalness.