| She wasn't afraid, not a bitShe was going to have a
wonderful time in CharlestonDidn't people always say that it was the
partyingest town in the whole South? And there was no question at all
about being invited everywhere; Aunt Pauline and Aunt Eulalie knew
everybodyThey'd know all about Rhett, where he was living, what he
was doingAll she'd have to do was No sense thinking about that
nowShe'd decide when she got thereIf she thought about it now,
she might feel nervous about going, and she had made up her mind to
go
Gracious! It was silly even to imagine being nervousIt wasn't as if
Charleston was the end of the worldWhy, Tony Fontaine went off to
Texas, a million miles away, just as easy as if it was no more than a
ride chanel big bags over to DecaturShe'd been to Charleston before, tooShe knew
where she was going It didn't mean a thing that she had hated it
After all, she'd been so young then, only seventeen, and a new widow
with a baby, besidesWade Hampton hadn't even cut his teeth yet
That
was over twelve years agoEverything would be completely different
nowIt was all going to work out just fine, just the way she
wanted
"Pansy, go tell the conductor to move our things, I want to sit closer
to the stoveThere's a draft from this window
Scarlett sent a telegram to her aunts from the station in Augusta
where
she changed to the South Carolina railroad line: ARRIVING F0UR PM
TRAIN
FOR vISiT STOP 0NLY 0NE SERVANT STOP L0VE Scarlett She had
thought it
all celebrity chanel handbags outExactly ten words, and there was no risk that her aunts would
wire back some excuse to keep her from coming, because she was
already
on her wayNot that they'd be likely toEulalie was forever begging
her to come see them, and hospitality was still the unwritten law of
the land in the South
But no sense gambling when you could have a sure thing, and she had
to
have her aunts' house and protection to begin withCharleston was a
mighty stuck-up, proud place, and Rhett was obviously trying to turn
people against herNo, she wouldn't think about thatShe was going
to love Charleston this time
Everything was going to be differentHer whole life was going to be
differentDon't look back, she'd always told herselfNow she truly
meant 18k omega watch itHer whole life was behind her, further behind with each turn
of the wheelsAll the demands of her businesses were in Uncle
Henry's
hands, her responsibilities to Melanie were taken care ol, her children
were settled at TaraFor the first time in her adult life she was
free to do anything she wanted to do, and she knew what that was
She'd prove to Rhett that he was wrong when he refused to believe
that
she loved himShe'd show him that she didAnd then he'd
be sorry he'd left herHe'd put his arms around her and kiss her, and
they'd be happy forever after
Even in Charleston if he insisted on staying thereLost in her
daydream, Scarlett didn't notice the man who got onto the train at
Ridgeville until he lurched against the arm omega constellation watch crystal of her seatThen she
recoiled as if he had struck herHe was in the blue uniform of the
Union ArmyA Yankee! What was he doing here? Those days were
done,
and she wanted to forget them forever, but the sight of the uniform
brought them all backThe fear when Atlanta was under siege, the
brutality of the soldiers when they stripped Tara of its pitiful store
of food and set fire to the house, the explosion of blood when she shot
the straggler before he could rape her Scarlett felt her heart
pounding with terror all over again, and she almost cried outDamn
them, damn them all for destroying the SouthDamn them most of all
for making her feel helpless and afraidShe hated the feeling, and
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