Scarlett sat beside the two girls, staring at them
stupidly. The echo of her own thoughts infuriated her and Scarlett shook offthe
pinching fingers.
Putting out his hand, helaid it on her
shoulder.
So the corn whisky had been used by the whole
family!
She would drive away all ghosts andfears with her
quiet Hush, hush. Why had she come on this fools errand, against all common
sense,dragging Melanie and her child? Ain beendar but bout a year an whisky ain no
good fer ladies nohow. She gnawed furiously, torewith both hands and the petticoat
lay in strips in her hands. Soldiers had been there before her and there was none
onthe trees. Hot tears came to Scarletts eyes at the word.
MahDilcey got a new chile herseff an she got mon
nuff fer both. She flapped the reins and urged the horse forward.
Ain beendar but bout a year an whisky ain no good
fer ladies nohow. But I hesh her and give her some of whutwas lef in that gode and
she sleepin. She popped up to a sittingposition and looked hastily all around. If
there wereonly Ellen, someone older than she, wiser and unweary, to whom shecould
go!
Pork placed the candle on the candle standand came
to her side.
Eventhat General Sherman himself had used this
room, Mothers office,for his headquarters. Havent Iinherited the steadiest head in
Clayton County? War stopped for nothing, not evenTara, built to last five hundred
years.
She peered through thegathering dusk down the two
lines of ancient trees.