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"That's all right, thenIt doesn't matter if he misses all the rest
as long as he's home for the Ball Scarlett could hear the capital B
in Miss Eleanor's voiceScarlett was certain that the hours would
drag by until the twenty-sixth and the beginning of the SeasonBut to
her surprise the time passed so quickly that she could hardly keep
up
The most entertaining part of it all was the battle with the Yankees
The colonel did, indeed, order retaliation for the curfew
humiliation
And on Monday the Market rang with laughter as Charleston's ladies
packed their baskets with the weapons of their choiceThe following
day the soldiers were careful to keep their gloves onPlunging a hand
into some loathsome-feeling substance or suddenly being afflicted with
fiery itching and swelling were not tiffany co bracelets experiences they were willing to
repeat"The fools should have known we'd expect them to do just
what
they did," Scarlett said to Sally Brewton at a whist party that
afternoonSally agreed, with a happy reminiscent laugh"I had a
loose-lidded box of lamp black in my shopping," she said"What was
yours?"
"Cayenne pepperI was scared to death I'd start sneezing and give
the
whole trick away speaking of tricks, I believe that's mine New
rationing regulations had been posted the day before, and the ladies of
Charleston were now gambling for coffee, not moneyWith the black
market effectively out of business for the time being, this was the
highest-stakes card game Scarlett had ever been in
She loved tormenting the Yankees, tooThere were still patrols on
Charleston's streets but their chanel wholesale purse noses had been tweaked and would be
tweaked again and again until they admitted defeatWith her as one
of
the tweakers"Deal," she said, "I feel lucky Only a few more days
and she would be at a ball, dancing with RhettHe was keeping away
from her now, managing things so that they were never alone
together,
but on the dance floor they would be together-and touching-and alone,
no matter how many other couples were on the floorScarlett held
the
white camellias Rhett had sent her to the cluster of curls at the nape
of her neck and twisted her head to see herself in the looking glass
"It looks like a gloh of fat on a bunch of sausages," she said with
disgust"Pansy, you'll have to do my hair different She could pin the flowers in between the waves, that wouldn't
be
too badOh, why did miu miu leather black coffer bag Rhett have to be so mean, telling her that
his precious old plantation flowers were the only jewels she could
wear?
It was bad enough that her ball gown was so dowdyBut with nothing
to
dress up the plainness except a bunch of flowers-she might as well
wear
a flour sack with a hole cut for her headShe'd counted on her pearls
and her diamond earbobs"You don't have to brush a hole in my
scalp,"
she grumbled at Pansy Pansy continued to brush the long
dark mass of hair with vigorous strokes, eradicating the curls that had
taken so long to arrangeScarlett looked at her reflection with
growing satisfactionYes, that was much betterHer neck was really
too pretty to coverIt was much better to wear her hair up
And her earbobs would show up betterShe was going to wear them,
no
matter what fendi black leatrher spy bag Rhett had told herShe had to be dazzling, she had to
win
the admiration of every man at the ball, and the hearts of at least a
fewThat would make Rhett sit up and take noticeShe fastened the
diamonds into her earlobesThere! She tilted her head from side to
side, pleased with the effect"Do you like this, Miss Scarlett?"
Pansy gestured toward her handiworkDo it fuller above the
ears Thank goodness Rosemary had turned down her offer to lend
Pansy
this eveningThough why Rosemary hadn't jumped at the chance was
a
mystery; she needed all the help she could get
She'd probably bundle her hair into the same lumpy old-maid bun she
always woreEntering the ballroom with Rhett's
sister would only call attention to how much prettier she was
"That's fine, Pansy," she said, good humor newest chanel bag restored |
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