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was always a little sad that I never had time for extra work in
AtlantaMy former husband, Frank Kennedy, left a fine business as an
inheritance for our little girlI felt it was my duty to watch over
it for her That should take care of that story Rhett was telling
Eleanor Butler nodded comprehension
Scarlett lowered her lashes to hide the delight in her eyesButler was resting, Scarlett wandered through the houseShe
hurried down the stairs to see what Rhett was so busy buying back
from
the Yankees for his motherThe place looked mighty bare to her
Scarlett’s eye wasn’t educated to appreciate the perfection of what he
had doneOn the second floor, the magnificent double drawing rooms
held exquisite sofas, tables, and chairs, placed so that each could be
appreciated as well as usedScarlett admired the obvious quality of
the silk upholstery and the well-polished gleam of the wood, but the
beauty of the space surrounding the furniture escaped her completely
She liked the small card room much betterThe table and chairs filled
it more, and besides, she loved to play cardsThe ground floor dining
room was only a dining room to her; she’d never heard of
Hepplewhite
And the library was just a place full of books, therefore boringWhat
pleased her most were the deep porches, because the day was so
warm,
and the view over the harbor included wheeling gulls and small
sailboats that looked as if they might themselves soar into the air at
any moment
Landlocked all her life, Scarlett found the broad expanse of water
incredibly exoticAnd the air smelled so good! It gave her an
appetite, tooShe’d be glad when Miss Eleanor finished her rest and
they could eat dinner* “Would you like to take coffee on the piazza,
Scarlett?” asked Eleanor Butler when she and Scarlett were finishing
their dessert”It might be our last chance for a while
It looks as if weather is coming in
“Oh, yes, I’d like that very much The dinner had been very good,
but
she still felt restless, almost confin

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“Do you want to see your wife again?”
Lanning reddened”She left me about a year ago, sir
The General’s shoes made a dry scraping sound as he turned away”Major, you can bring this man up for court-martial tomorrow He paused in the doorway”Lanning, I warn you, you’d better tell the truthI want the name of every noncom in your company who’s been doing this
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I didn’t know if it was the right decision or the
wrong one, but I did know he might have a long
night with Elizabeth Eastlake ahead of himAlso,
that headache was still sitting in the back of my
skullI settled for asking him again if he
wouldn’t consider letting me turn my promised
doctor’s appointment into a double date
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“I will consider it,” he said”And I’ll let you
know
“Well don’t wait too long, because-”
He raised a hand, stilling me, and for once his
face was unsmilingEnough for one
night, okay?”
“Okay,” I saidI watched him go in, then went
back to the van
Jack had the volume up He went
to turn it down and I said, “No, that’s okay
“Really?” He turned around and headed back up the
roadYou ever heard em before?”
“Jack,” I said, “that’s StyxDennis DeYoung?
Tommy Shaw? Where have you been all your life? In
a cave?”
Jack smiled guiltily”I’m into country and even
more into old standards,” he said”To tell you
the truth, I’m a Rat Pack kind of guy
The idea of Jack Cantori hanging with Dino and
Frank made me wonder – and not for the first time
that day – if any of this was really happeningI
also wondered how I could remember that Dennis
DeYoung and Tommy Shaw had been in Styx – that
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Shaw had in fact written the song currently
blasting out of the van’s speakers – and sometimes
not be able to remember my own ex-wife’s name
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Both lights on the answering machine next to the
living room phone were blinking: the one
indicating that I had messages and the one
indicating that the tape for recording messages
was fullBut the number in the MESSAGES WAITING
window was only 1I considered this with
foreboding while the weight with my headache
inside it slid a little closer to the front of my
skullThe only two people I could think of who
might call and leave a message so long it would
use up the whole tape were Pam and Ilse, and in
neither case would hitting PLAY MESSAGES be apt to
bring me good newsIt doesn’t take five minutes
of recording-time to say Everything’s fine, call
when you get a chance
Leave it until tomorrow, I thought, and a craven
voice I hadn’t even known was in my mental
repertoire (maybe it was new) was willing to go
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@@@@@Occasionally he could see the red skeletal outline of a hand covering a flashlight, and once or twice a midgeon of light cast an eerie shadow across a patient’s faceWhat’s going on? Minetta wonderedHe could hear a man groaning, and the sound formed goose flesh on his scalpThe doctor came in, and talked for a little while with one of the orderlies”Watch the drain on that thoracic, and give him a hypo, twice the usual amount, if he’s too restless
That’s all they know, Minetta thought, hypo, hypo, I could be a sawbones myselfHe was watching the scene through half-opened eyes, and he listened cautiously to the conversation between the two patients whose heads were bandagedIt was the first time he had heard them speak”Hey, orderly,” one of them was asking, “what’s up?”
The orderly came over to them, and talked for a little while”I hear there was a lot of patrolling today, and these guys just came from Battalion Aid
“You know if E Company was in it?”
“Ask the General,” the medic said
“I’m glad I wasn’t in it,” one of the patients muttered
“You ain’t just a bird-turding, Jack,” the orderly said
Minetta turned overWhat a way to get waked up, he thoughtThere was a patient at the far end of the tent who was weeping with loud thick sounds that seemed to writhe out of his chest and throatMinetta closed his eyesWhat a setup, he thought disgustedlyHis annoyance was suppressing a great deal of fear; he had become conscious suddenly of the thrumming of the jungle night outside the tent, and he had the childish horror that comes from waking suddenly in the darknessWith the exception of the minor exertions that had been required to use the bed pan under the cot and to eat the food that had been set before him, he had been completely inactive for two and a half days, and it made him extremely restlessI can’t take this, he said to himselfThe patient who had been weeping had begun to scream now, and the sounds had such terror that Minetta ground his teeth and held the blanket over his ears”NEEEE-YOWWWWWWW, NEEEEEEE-YOWWWWWRR,” the patient wailed, imitating the sound of a mortar, and then he screamed again, “God, you got to save me, you got to save me!’
There was a long silence afterward with no sound at all in the black tent, and then one of the patients muttered, “Another psycho
“What the hell are we in the loony ward for?”
Minetta shiveredThat nut could kill me when I’m asle

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They’re laughing and having fun and skimming the water as free as a
birdWhy not take me sailing? I loved it so that time we came back
from the Landing, I’d love it even more in that tiny boat the Cooper
boy hasWhy, it’s alive, it moves so quickly, so lightly, so so
happily! Fortunately, there were few afternoons that she was at home
and near the spy glassAlthough the evening receptions and balls
were
the main events of the Season, there were also other things to be
done
The dedicated whist players continued to gamble, Miss Eleanor’s
Confederate Home committee had meetings about fund raising to buy
books
for the school and to repair a leak that suddenly appeared in the roof,
there were still calls to pay and to receiveScarlett became
hollow-eyed and pale from fatigue
It would all have been worth it if Rhett was the one feeling jealous and
not herBut he seemed to be unaware of the admiration she was
provokingOr worse, uninterestedShe had to make him notice,
make
him care! She decided to choose one man from her dozens of
admirersSomeone he’d
have to
feel jealous ofHeavens, she looked like a ghost! She put on rouge,
and heavy perfume, and her most innocent expression for the hunt*
*
* Middleton Courtney was tall and fair, with sleepy-lidded pale eyes
and extremely white teeth that he flashed in a wicked-looking smile
He was the epitome of what Scarlett considered a sophisticated man
about townBest of all, he, too, had a phosphate mine and it was
twenty times the size of Rhett’s
When he bowed over her hand in greeting, Scarlett closed her fingers
over hisHe looked up from his bow and smiled”Dare I hope that
you’ll honor me with the next dance, MrsButler?”
“If you hadn’t asked me, MrCourtney, it would have broken my poor
heart When the polka ended Scarlett opened her fan in the slow
unfurling known as “languishing fall She fluttered it near her face
to lift the appealing tendrils of hair above her green eyes
“My goodness,” she said breathlessly, “I’m afraid that if I don’t get a
little air I’m liable to keel right over into your arms, Mr
Will you be so kind?” She took his proffered arm and leaned on it
while
he escorted her to a bench beneath a wi

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“Show me your pictures,” I whispered, and that red
mouth swallowed me whole
How to Draw a Picture (X)
Be prepared to see it allIf you want to create -
God help you if you do, God help you if you can -
don’t you dare commit the immorality of stopping
on the surfaceGo deep and take your fair salvage
Do it no matter how much it hurts
You can draw two little girls – twins – but anyone
can do thatDon’t stop there just because the
rest is a nightmareDo not neglect to add the
fact that they are standing thigh-deep in water
that should be over their headsA witness – Emery
Paulson, for instance – could see this if he
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looked, but so many people aren’t prepared to see
what is right in front of their eyes
Until, of course, it’s too late
He’s come down to the beach to smoke a cigarHe
can do this on the back porch or on the veranda,
but some strong compulsion has urged him down the
rutted road Adie calls Drunkard’s Boulevard and
then down the steeper, sandy path to the beach
This voice has suggested his cigar will taste
better hereHe can sit on a fallen log the waves
have cast up and watch the after-ashes of the
sunset, as orange fades to tangerine and the stars
go blueThe Gulf will look pleasant in such light,
the voice suggests, even if the Gulf has had the
bad taste to mark the beginning of his marriage by
swallowing two of his beloved’s little sisters
But there’s more to watch than just a sunset, it
seemsThere’s a ship out thereIt’s an oldfashioned
one, a pretty, slim-hulled thing with
three masts and furled sailsInstead of sitting
on the log, he walks down the beach to where the
dry sand becomes wet and firm and packed,
marveling at that swallow-shape against the fading
sunsetSome trick of the air makes it seem as if
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the day’s last red is shining right through the
hull
He is thinking this when the first cry comes,
chiming in his head like a silver bell: Emery!
And then comes another: Emery, help! The undertow!
The rip!
That is when he sees the girls, and his heart
gives a springing leapIt seems to rise all the
way to his throat before falling back into place,
where it dashes double-timeThe unlit cigar
tumbles from his fingers
Two little girls, and they look just the same
They appear to be wearing identical jumpers, and
although Emery should not be able to distinguish
colors in this dying light, he can: one jumper is
red, with an L on the front; the other is blue,
with a

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For a moment he was uneasyDid it make any difference which foot it was? He was a leftie and maybe it’d be better to shoot the right foot, or were they both the same? He thought of asking Polack, and immediately dropped the ideaThis kind of thing he’d have to play purse logo aloneIn a couple of weeks, on a day when nothing was doing, he could take care of that little detailHe’d be in the hospital for a while, for three months, six months, but thenHe lit a cigarette and watched the clouds dissolve into one another, feeling agreeably sorry for himself because he was going to have to lose a foot and it was not his fault
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You’ve been a big piece of my life all along, and you always will be
Say you’ll let me keep that
“Of course, my dearI’m honored you f,e,el that wayI won’t
distress you by referring again to marrIageHe smiled, and he looked
so young, so much like the Ashley of Twelve Oaks that Scarlett’s heart
turned overHe mustn’t ever guess that she’d clearly heard relief
in his voiceEverything was all rightNo, better than all right
Now they could truly be friendsThe past was neatly finished”What
are your plans, Scarlett? Are you home for good, as I hope?” She’d
prepared for this question even before she sailed from GalwayShe
must make sure that no one in Atlanta could know how to find her, it
made her too vulnerable to Rhett, to losing Cat”I’m selling up,
Ashley, I don’t want to be tied down at all for a whileAfter I
visited in Savannah, I paid a visit to some of Pa’s family in Ireland,
then I went travelling She had to be careful what she saidAshley
had been abroad, he’d catch her out in a minute if she claimed she’d
been to places she hadn’t been
“Somehow or other I never got around to seeing LondonI figure I
might settle there for a whileDo help me out, AshleyDo you think
London’s a good idea?” Scarlett knew, from Melanie, that he
considered
London as perfect as a city could beHe’d talk his head off, and
forget to ask any more questions”I enjoyed the afternoon so much,
AshleyYou’ll come again, won’t you? I’ll be here for a while
settling thingsIt’s a rare pleas

@@@@@It was subtle, there were so many exceptions that it could be called no more than a trend, and yet it was thereHe, himself: rich father, rich college, good jobs, no hardship which he had not assumed himself; he fulfilled it, and many of his friends did tooIt was not true so much for the ones he had known at collegeThey were 4-F, or enlisted men, or majors in the Air Corps, or top-secret work in Washington or even in CO camps, but all the men he had known in prep school were now ensigns or lieutenantsA class of men born to wealth, accustomed to obediencebut that made it incorrect alreadyIt wasn’t obedience, it was the kind of assurance that he had, or Conn had, or Hobart, or his father, or even the GeneralA trace of his resentment returned againIf not for the General he would be doing now what he should have doneAn officer had some excuse only if he was in combatAs long as he remained here he would be dissatisfied with himself, contemptuous of the other officers, even more contemptuous than was normal for himThere was nothing in this headquarters, and yet everything, an odd satisfaction over and above the routine annoyancesWorking with the General had its unique compensations
Once again, resentment, and the other thing, awe perhapsHearn had never known anyone quite like the General, and he was partially convinced the General was a great manIt was not only his unquestioned brilliance; Hearn had known people whose minds were equal to General Cummings’sIt was certainly not his intellect, which was amazingly spotty, marred by great gapsWhat the General had was an almost unique ability to extend his thoughts into immediate and effective action, and this was an aptitude which might not be apparent for months even when one was working with him
There were many contradictions in the GeneralHe had essentially, Hearn believed, a complete indifference to the comforts of his own person, and yet he lived with at least the luxuries which were requisite for a general officerOn invasion day, after the General landed on the beach, he had been on a phone almost all day long, composing his battle tactics off the cuff, as it were, and for five, six, eight hours he had directed the opening phases of the campaign without taking a halt, indeed without referring once to a map, or pausing for a decision after his line officers had given him what information they possessedIt had been a remarkable performanceHis concentration had been almost fantastic
Once in the late afternoon of that first day, Hobart had come up to the General and asked, “Sir, where do you want to set up headquarters bivouac?”
And Cummings had snarled, “Anywhere, man, anywhere,” in shocking contrast to the perfect manners with which he usually spoke to his officersFor that instant the fa?ade had been peeled back, and a naked animal closeted with its bone had been expo

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for hapenny a poundFitzpatrick waited for Scarlett’s tirade to endThen she calmly
took the book from her and put it on a table”You’d turn them out
onto the road, then?” she said”They’ll find plenty of company, for
many of the Big houses in Ireland are doing just what you’re
proposing
Not a day goes by we don’t have a dozen or more Cartier Tortue poor souls begging a
bowl of soup at the kitchen doorWill you add to their number?”
Scarlett strode impatiently to the window”No, of course not, don’t
be ridiculousBut there must be some way we can cut expenses”It’s
more costly to feed your fine horses than your ) Mrs
Fitzpatrick’s voice was coldScarlett turned on her”That will be
all,” she said chanel handbags sale furiously
She picked up the book and went to her deskBut she was too upset
to
concentrate on the accountsFitz be so mean? She
must know that I enjoy hunting more than anything else in my life
The
only thing that’s getting me through this horrible summer is knowing
that come fall, the hunting will begin againScarlett closed her eyes
and tried to deville watch remember the crisp cold mornings, with the night’s light
frost turned to trailing mist, and the sound of the horn signalling the
beginning of the chaseA tiny muscle jumped involuntarily in the soft
flesh over her clenched jawShe wasn’t good at imagining, she was
good at doingShe opened her eyes and worked doggedly on the
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to lose money this yearThe knowledge bothered her, because she
had
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