All the songs had todo with death and parting
and sorrow.
She silently cursed the efficient and
indefatigable Mrs.
There was noquinine and no iodine at all. Said
theywere needed for the defense of their state. He was sixteen now and in the
Home Guard. Play My Old Kentucky Home, he suggested smoothly, and
Scarlettgratefully plunged into it. Scarlett thought hard but Thermopylae meant
nothing to her. Cant you talk about something else and drive faster? An she gib
me a dollar an tell me ter do jes whut de witegempmums tell me.
She had known verywell there would be trouble
if she invited Rhett to supper. His voice was still soft and filled with
specious humility.
But Old Joeknew what he was doing and that was
enough for them.
I wont goback to the hospital if they hang me!
Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crowded withsufferers. As
they fell back down the valley, an army of refugees fell backbefore them. Men
lay down to sleepwhere they could see the rails gleaming faintly in the
starlight. When the gentlemen joined the ladies on the front porch, the
talkturned to war. All this runningabout and worry wont help you and may harm
the baby.
Oh, well, said Scarlett, on whom military
strategy was utterlylost. Now, put on your apron and trot over to Dr. Couriers
and wounded coming into Atlanta gavereassuring reports to the frightened
townspeople. Thewounded flooded Atlanta in train-loads and the town was
appalled. I wont goback to the hospital if they hang me! Wearily the
Confederates lay on their arms and prayed for respiteand rest. Deydone sont an
tuck us, kase us wuz de fo bigges an strongeshans at Tara. You little fraud, he
said, clucking to the horse. And oh, the horror ofhearing the screams from the
operating ward where amputations weregoing on! It was still theirs, that
slender iron line windingthrough the sunny valley toward Atlanta. You are like
everyone else, screaming Off with his head becausehe cant do the impossible. He
always manages to get places before theYankees do.
He always manages to get places before
theYankees do. Im not talking about the little boys and the Mexican
Warveterans.