“You’re mighty nice to want
cheap uggs
online to do things for me, Captain Butler, but really, I’m so
lucky. I have everything in the world any woman could want.”
“That’s
fine,” said Rhett, suddenly grim. “And I intend to see that you keep
them.”
When Scarlett came back from Tara, the unhealthy pallor had gone
from her face and her cheeks were rounded and faintly pink. Her green eyes were
alert and sparkling again, and she laughed aloud for the first time in weeks
when Rhett and Bonnie met her and Wade and Ella at the depot—laughed in
annoyance and amusement. Rhett had two straggling turkey feathers in the brim of
his hat and Bonnie, dressed
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diagonal lines of indigo blue on her cheeks and a peacock feather half as long
as she was in her curls. Evidently a game of Indian had been in progress when
the time came to meet the train and it was obvious from the look of quizzical
helplessness on Rhett’s face and the lowering indignation of Mammy that Bonnie
had refused to have her toilet remedied, even to meet her mother.
Scarlett said: “What a ragamuffin!” as she kissed the child and turned a cheek
for Rhett’s lips. There were crowds of
discount ugg boots people
in the depot or she would never have invited this caress. She could not help
noticing, for all her embarrassment at Bonnie’s appearance, that everyone in the
crowd was smiling at the figure father and daughter cut, smiling not in derision
but in genuine amusement and kindness. Everyone knew that Scarlett’s youngest
had her father under her thumb and Atlanta was amused and approving. Rhett’s
great love for his child had gone far toward reinstating him in public
opinion.
On the way home, Scarlett was full of County news. The hot,
dry weather was making the cotton grow so fast you could
ugg boots discount
outlet almost hear it but Will said cotton prices were going to be
low this fall. Suellen was going to have another baby—she spelled this out so
the children would not comprehend—and Ella had shown unwonted spirit in biting
Suellen’s oldest girl. Though, observed Scarlett, it was no more than little
Susie deserved, she being her mother all over again. But Suellen had become
infuriated and they had had an invigorating quarrel that was just like old
times. Wade had killed a water moccasin, all by himself. ‘Randa and Camilla
Tarleton were teaching school and wasn’t that a joke? Not a one of
cheap uggs
online the Tarletons had ever been able to spell cat! Betsy
Tarleton had married a fat one-armed man from Lovejoy and they and Hetty and Jim
Tarleton were raising a good cotton crop at Fairhill. Mrs. Tarleton had a brood
mare and a colt and was as happy as though she had a million dollars. And there
were negroes living in the old Calvert house! Swarms of them and they actually
owned it! They’d bought it in at the sheriff’s sale. The place was dilapidated
and it made you cry to look at it. No one knew where Cathleen and her no-good
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widow! Imagine that, after them living in the same house for so many years!
Everybody said it was a marriage of convenience because people were beginning to
gossip about them living there alone, since both Old Miss and Young Miss had
died. And it had about broken Dimity Munroe’s heart. But it served her right If
she’d had any gumption she’d have caught her another man long ago, instead of
waiting for Alex to get money enough to marry her.