For too many years Scarlett
ugg boots for
girls had seen the Republicans, backed up by the force of the
Yankee Army, in power in Georgia to believe Rhett’s light words. The governor
was too strongly entrenched for any legislature to do anything to him, much less
put him in jail.
“How you do run on,” she observed.
“If he
isn’t put in jail, at least he won’t be reelected. We’re going to have a
Democratic governor next time, for a change.”
“And
buy uggs
online cheap I suppose you’ll have something to do with it?” she
questioned sarcastically.
“My pet, I will. I am having something to do
with it now. That’s why I stay out so late at nights. I’m working harder than I
ever worked with a shovel in the gold rush, trying to help get the election
organized. And—I know this will hurt you, Mrs. Butler, but I am
contributing
uggs
discount plenty of money to the organization, too. Do you remember
telling me, years ago, in Frank’s store, that it was dishonest for me to keep
the Confederate gold? At last I’ve come to agree with you and the Confederate
gold is being spent to get the Confederates back into power.”
“You’re
pouring money down a rat hole!”
“What! You call the Democratic party a
rat hole?” His eyes
ugg boots discount
outlet mocked her and then were quiet, expressionless. “It doesn’t
matter a damn to me who wins this election. What does matter is that everyone
knows I’ve worked for it and that I’ve spent money on it. And that’ll be
remembered in Bonnie’s favor in years to come.”
“I was almost afraid
from your pious talk that you’d had a change of heart, but I see you’ve
got
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uggs for women no more sincerity about the Democrats than about
anything else.”
“Not a change of heart at all. Merely a change of hide.
You might possibly sponge the spots off a leopard but he’d remain a leopard,
just the same.”
Bonnie, awakened by the sound of voices in the hall,
called sleepily but imperiously: “Daddy!” and Rhett started past
Scarlett.
“Rhett, wait a minute. There’s something else I want
to
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uggs for women tell you. You must stop taking Bonnie around with
you in the afternoons to political meetings. It just doesn’t look well. The idea
of a little girl at such places! And it makes you look so silly. I never dreamed
that you took her until Uncle Henry mentioned it, as though he thought I knew
and—”