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Gone with the Wind
Gone with the Wind
Mitchell, Margaret
Published:
1936
Type(s):
Novels, Romance
Source:
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About Mitchell:
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949),
as Margaret Mitchell was an American author, who won the Pulitzer Pr-
ize in 1937 for her novel, Gone with the Wind, published in 1936. The
novel is one of the most popular books of all time, selling more than 28
million copies (see list of best-selling books). An American film adapta-
tion, released in 1939, became the highest-grossing film in the history of
Hollywood, and received a record-breaking number of Academy
Awards.
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Part 1
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Chapter
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Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when
caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too
sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of
French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was
an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale
green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and
slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted up-
ward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin—that
skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bon-
nets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of
Tara, her father's plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861, she
made a pretty picture. Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its
twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched
the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought
her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist,
the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed
breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all the modesty of her
spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon
and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self
was poorly concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were
turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous
demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's
gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes
were her own.
On either side of her, the twins lounged easily in their chairs, squint-
ing at the sunlight through tall mint-garnished glasses as they laughed
and talked, their long legs, booted to the knee and thick with saddle
muscles, crossed negligently. Nineteen years old, six feet two inches tall,
long of bone and hard of muscle, with sunburned faces and deep auburn
hair, their eyes merry and arrogant, their bodies clothed in identical blue
coats and mustard-colored breeches, they were as much alike as two
bolls of cotton.
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Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing in-
to gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of
white blossoms against the background of new green. The twins' horses
were hitched in the driveway, big animals, red as their masters' hair; and
around the horses' legs quarreled the pack of lean, nervous possum
hounds that accompanied Stuart and Brent wherever they went. A little
aloof, as became an aristocrat, lay a black-spotted carriage dog, muzzle
on paws, patiently waiting for the boys to go home to supper.
Between the hounds and the horses and the twins there was a kinship
deeper than that of their constant companionship. They were all healthy,
thoughtless young animals, sleek, graceful, high-spirited, the boys as
mettlesome as the horses they rode, mettlesome and dangerous but,
withal, sweet-tempered to those who knew how to handle them.
Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot
since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor
soft. They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent
all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull
things in books. Life in the north Georgia county of Clayton was still
new and, according to the standards of Augusta, Savannah and Charle-
ston, a little crude. The more sedate and older sections of the South
looked down their noses at the up-country Georgians, but here in north
Georgia, a lack of the niceties of classical education carried no shame,
provided a man was smart in the things that mattered. And raising good
cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies
with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things
that mattered.
In these accomplishments the twins excelled, and they were equally
outstanding in their notorious inability to learn anything contained
between the covers of books. Their family had more money, more horses,
more slaves than any one else in the County, but the boys had less gram-
mar than most of their poor Cracker neighbors.
It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the
porch of Tara this April afternoon. They had just been expelled from the
University of Georgia, the fourth university that had thrown them out in
two years; and their older brothers, Tom and Boyd, had come home with
them, because they refused to remain at an institution where the twins
were not welcome. Stuart and Brent considered their latest expulsion a
fine joke, and Scarlett, who had not willingly opened a book since
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