She didn't think anything of it when she began...
She didn't think anything of it
when she began having sherry in the afternoon-after all, taking a glass
or two of sherry was a ladylike thing to doAnd she hardly noticed
when she changed from sherry to whiskey or when she first needed
a
drink to do the store accounts because it depressed her that business
was falling off so or when she began leaving the food on her plate
because alcohol satisfied her hunger better or when she began to
take a glass of brandy as soon as she got up in the morning
She hardly even noticed when summer became fallPansy brought
the
afternoon mail to the bedroom on a trayLately Scarlett had tried
sleeping for a while after dinnerIt filled up part of the empty
afternoon, and it gave her some rest, a relief denied to her at
night
"You want I should bring you a pot of coffee or something, chanel coin purse Miss
Scarlett?"
"No Scarlett took the topmost letter and Aunt
Eulalie always wrote on both sides of the thin paper, and often she
"crossed" the letter, writing on the page then turning it to a right
angle and writing across the previous lines
All to say a great deal about precious littleThe unseasonably warm
autumn she said that every year Aunt Pauline having trouble
with her knee she'd had trouble with her knee as long as Scarlett
could remember a visit to Sister Mary Joseph
Scarlett made a faceShe couldn't think of her baby sister Carreen by
her religious name, even though she'd been in the convent in
Charleston
for eight years the bake sale for the Cathedral building fund was
far behind schedule because contributions were not coming in, and
couldn't Scarlett-great balls of fire! She kept the roof over her
aunts' heads, did she have balenciaga replica handbags to roof a cathedral, too? She turned the
page over, frowningRhett's name leapt from the tangle of
criss-crossed wordsIt does one's heart good to see a cheri'he'd'hend
like Eleanor Butler find happiness after so many sorrowsIthett il
quite ho mother's gallant, and her devotion has done much to redeem
him
in the eyes of all those who deplored the wild ways of ho younger
days
It 0 band my comprehension, and a4o that of your Aunt Pauline, why
you
Ostrt on maintaining your unaccountable preoccupation with trade
when
you have no need to remain associated with the storeI have
deplored
your actions in thu regard on many past occasions, and you have
never
heeded my pleas that you abandon a course of action so unsuitable to
a
lady
I therefore ceased to refer to it some years agoBut now, when it
keeps you from your proper place by fake gucci the side of your husband, Ifrel it
my all to once again allude to the astastel matter
Scarlett threw the letter onto the tableSo that was the story that
Rhett was handing out! That she wouldn't leave the store and go to
Charleston with himWhat a blackhearted liar he was! She'd begged
him to take her with him when he leftHow dare he spread such
slander? She'd have some choice words to say to Mister Rhett Butler
when he came homeShe strode to the sideboard, splashed brandy
into
her glassSome fell onto the gleaming wooden surface
A swipe with her sleeve mopped it upHe'd probably deny it, the
skunkWell, she'd shake Aunt Eulalie's letter in his faceLet's see
him call his mother's best friend a liar! Suddenly her rage left her,
and she felt coldShe knew what he'd say: "Would you rather I told
the truth? That I left you because living chanel classic handbag with you was intolerable?"
The shame of itAnything was better than that
Even the loneliness while she waited for him to come homeHer hand
lifted the glass to her lips, and she drank deepThe movement caught
her eye, reflected in the mirror above the sideboardSlowly Scarlett
lowered her hand and set the glass downShe looked into her own
eyes
They widened in shock at what they, sawShe hadn't really looked at
herself for months, and she couldn believe that pale, thin, sunkeneyed
woman had anything to do with herWhy, her hair looked as if it
hadn't been washed for weeks! What had happened to her? Her hand
reached automatically for the decanter, providing the answerScarlett
pulled her hand away, and she saw that it was shaking"Oh, my
God,"
she whisperedShe clutched the edge of the sideboard for support
and
stared at her gucci leather handbags reflection