| Not because they meant more work; in fact she was only
asking for what the servants always had for breakfast themselvesNo,
what bothered Jerome and the others was her youth and energyShe
was
a loud disruption of the house's shrine-like, muted atmosphereThe
servants could only hope that she would leave soon, and without
wreaking too much havocAfter breakfast, Eulalie and Pauline took
her
into each of the rooms on the first floor, talking eagerly about the
parties and receptions they had seen in their youth, correcting each
other constantly and arguing about decades-old detailsScarlett
paused for a long time in front of the portrait of three young girls,
trying to see her mother's composed adult features in the
chubby-cheeked five-year-old of the painting
Scarlett had felt isolated in Charleston's web of intermarried
generationsIt was good to be in the house where her mother had
been
born and reared, in a city where she was part of chanel wallet the web"You must
have about a million cousins in Savannah," she said to the auntsCan I meet them? They're my cousins, too
Pauline and Eulalie looked confusedCousins? There were the
Prudhommes, their mother's familyBut only one very old gentleman
was
in Savannah, the widower of their mother's sisterThe rest of the
family had moved to New Orleans many years ago"Everyone in New
Orleans speaks French," Pauline explainedAnd as for the Robillards,
they were the only ones"Pere had lots of cousins in France,
brothers, too-two of themBut he was the only one to come to
America"But we have many, many friends in
Savannah, ScarlettYou can certainly meet themSister and I will be
paying calls and leaving cards today, if Pere doesn't need us to stay
home with"
"I'll have to be back by three," Scarlett said quicklyShe
didn't want to be out when Rhett arrived, nor did she want to be other
than at her bestShe'd need plenty of time to bathe and dress rolex vintage women's watch before
the train from Charleston got inBut Rhett didn't come, and when
Scarlett left the carefully chosen bench in the immaculately maintained
formal garden behind the house she felt chilled to the boneShe had
refused her aunts' invitation to accompany them that evening to the
musicale they'd been invited to
If it was going to be anything like the tedious reminiscences of the
old ladies they'd called on that morning, she'd be bored to deathBut
her grandfather's malevolent eyes when he received his family for ten
minutes before supper made her change her mind
Anything would be better than being alone in the house with
Grandfather
RobillardThe Telfair sisters, Mary and Margaret, were the recognized
cultural guardians of Savannah, and their musicale was nothing like
the
ones Scarlett had known beforeUsually they were just ladies singing,
showing off their "accomplishments," accompanied by other ladies on
the
pianoforteIt was wholesale tiffany obligatory that ladies sing a little, play the
piano a little, draw or paint watercolors a little and do fancy
needlework a littleAt the Telfairs' house on Saint James' Square,
the standards were much more demandingThe handsome double
drawing
rooms had rows of gilt chairs across their centers, and at the curved
end of one of the rooms a piano and a harp and six chairs with music
stands in front of them promised some real performancesScarlett
made
mental notes of all the arrangementsThe double drawing rooms at
the
Butler house could easily be fixed the same way, and it would be a
different kind of party from what everyone else didShe'd have a
reputation as an elegant hostess in no time at allShe wouldn't be
old and frumpy looking like the Telfair sisters, eitherOr as dowdy
as the younger women who were hereWhy was it that everywhere in
the
South people thought they had to look poor and patched to prove they
were respectable? The string wholesale rolex watches quartet bored her, and she thought the
harpist would never finishShe did enjoy the singers, even though
she
had never heard of opera; at least there was a man singing with the
woman instead of two girls togetherAnd after the songs in foreign
languages, they did a group of songs she knewThe man's voice was
wonderfully romantic in "Beautiful Dreamer" and it throbbed with
emotion when he sang "Come Back to Erin, Mavourneen,
Mavourneen She
had to admit he sounded a lot better than Gerald O'Hara in hiscupsI
wonder what Pa would make of all this? Scarlett almost giggled
aloud
He'd probably sing along and add something from a flask to the punch,
tooThen he'd ask for "Peg in a Low Back'd Car Just as she had
asked Rhett to sing it The room and the people in it and the music
disappeared for her, and she heard Rhett's voice booming inside the
overturned sloop, felt his arms holding her to his warmthHe can't do
without meHe'll come to me this gucci large shopping tote bag time |
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