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Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

Gone with the Wind

Margaret Mitchell

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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell

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01 CHAPTER I SCARLETT O’HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton

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02 CHAPTER II WHEN THE TWINS left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died

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03 CHAPTER III ELLEN O’HARA was thirty-two years old, and, according to the standards of her day, she was a middle-aged

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04 CHAPTER IV THAT NIGHT AT SUPPER, Scarlett went through the motions of presiding over the table in her mother’s

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05 CHAPTER V IT WAS TEN O’CLOCK in the morning. The day was warm for April and the golden sunlight streamed,

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06 CHAPTER VI THEY CROSSED the river and the carriage mounted the hill. Even before Twelve Oaks came into view Scarlett

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07 CHAPTER VII WITHIN TWO WEEKS Scarlett had become a wife, and within two months more she was a widow. She was

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08 CHAPTER VIII AS THE TRAIN carried Scarlett northward that May morning in 1862, she thought that Atlanta couldn’t possibly

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09 CHAPTER IX SCARLETT sat in the window of her bedroom that midsummer morning and disconsolately watched the wagons

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10 CHAPTER X OVER THE WAFFLES next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.

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11 CHAPTER XI ON AN AFTERNOON of the following week, Scarlett came home from the hospital weary and indignant. She

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12 CHAPTER XII THE WAR went on, successfully for the most part, but people had stopped saying “One more victory and the war

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13 CHAPTER XIII UNDER MRS. MERRIWETHER’S GOADING, Dr. Meade took action, in the form of a letter to the newspaper

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14 CHAPTER XIV HOPE WAS ROLLING HIGH in every Southern heart as the summer of 1863 came in. Despite privation and

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15 CHAPTER XV THE ARMY, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan—a tired, depleted army since

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16 CHAPTER XVI JANUARY AND FEBRUARY OF 1864 PASSED, full of cold rains and wild winds, clouded by pervasive gloom

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17 CHAPTER XVII MAY OF 1864 CAME—a hot dry May that wilted the flowers in the buds—and the Yankees under General

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18 CHAPTER XVIII FOR THE FIRST TIME since the war began, Atlanta could hear the sound of battle. In the early morning hours

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19 CHAPTER XIX IN THOSE FIRST DAYS of the siege, when the Yankees crashed here and there against the defenses of the city,

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20 CHAPTER XX AS THE HOT noisy days of August were drawing to a close the bombardment abruptly ceased. The quiet that fell

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21 CHAPTER XXI AFTER SENDING UP Melanie’s breakfast tray, Scarlett dispatched Prissy for Mrs. Meade and sat down with

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22 CHAPTER XXII THERE WOULD NEVER AGAIN BE an afternoon as long as this one. Or as hot. Or as full of lazy insolent

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23 CHAPTER XXIII AFTER PRISSY HAD GONE, Scarlett went wearily into the downstairs hall and lit a lamp. The house felt

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24 CHAPTER XXIV THE BRIGHT GLARE of morning sunlight streaming through the trees overhead awakened Scarlett. For a

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25 CHAPTER XXV THE NEXT MORNING Scarlett’s body was so stiff and sore from the long miles of walking and jolting in the

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26 CHAPTER XXVI SCARLETT HAD BEEN AT TARA two weeks since her return from Atlanta when the largest blister on her foot

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27 CHAPTER XXVII ON A NOONDAY in mid-November, they all sat grouped about the dinner table, eating the last of the dessert

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28 CHAPTER XXVIII COLD WEATHER set in abruptly with a killing frost Chilling winds swept beneath the doorsills and rattled the

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29 CHAPTER XXIX THE FOLLOWING APRIL General Johnston, who had been given back the shattered remnants of his old

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30 CHAPTER XXX IN THAT warm summer after peace came, Tara suddenly lost its isolation. And for months thereafter a stream of

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31 CHAPTER XXXI ON A COLD January afternoon in 1866, Scarlett sat in the office writing a letter to Aunt Pitty, explaining in

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32 CHAPTER XXXII SHE WAS STILL CLUTCHING the ball of red clay when she went up the front steps. She had carefully avoided

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33 CHAPTER XXXIII A COLD WIND was blowing stiffly and the scudding clouds overhead were the deep gray of slate when Scarlett

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34 CHAPTER XXXIV THE SUN SHONE intermittently the next morning and the hard wind that drove dark clouds swiftly across its

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35 CHAPTER XXXV IT WAS RAINING when she came out of the building and the sky was a dull putty color. The soldiers on the

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36 CHAPTER XXXVI SHE MARRIED Frank Kennedy two weeks later after a whirlwind courtship which she blushingly told him left

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37 CHAPTER XXXVII IT WAS on a wild wet night in April that Tony Fontaine rode in from Jonesboro on a lathered horse that was half

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38 CHAPTER XXXVIII SCARLETT SAW IT ALL, lived with it by day, took it to bed with her at night, dreading always what might

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39 CHAPTER XXXIX THE TRAIN was very late and the long, deeply blue twilight of June was settling over the countryside when

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40 CHAPTER XL SCARLETT SLEPT little that night. When the dawn had come and the sun was creeping over the black pines on

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41 CHAPTER XLI WHEN THE LAST GOOD-BY had been said and the last sound of wheels and hooves died away, Scarlett went

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42 CHAPTER XLII SCARLETT’S CHILD was a girl, a small bald-headed mite, ugly as a hairless monkey and absurdly like Frank.

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43 CHAPTER XLIII IT WAS ONE of those rare December days when the sun was almost as warm as Indian summer. Dry red leaves

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44 CHAPTER XLIV THE MARCH AFTERNOON was windy and cold, and Scarlett pulled the lap robe high under her arms as she

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45 CHAPTER XLV THAT NIGHT when Frank deposited her and Aunt Pitty and the children at Melanie’s and rode off down the

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46 CHAPTER XLVI FEW FAMILIES in the north end of town slept that night for the news of the disaster to the Klan, and Rhett’s

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47 CHAPTER XLVII SCARLETT SAT in her bedroom, picking at the supper tray Mammy had brought her, listening to the wind

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48 CHAPTER XLVIII SHE DID HAVE FUN, more fun than she had had since the spring before the war. New Orleans was such a

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49 CHAPTER XLIX MRS. ELSING cocked her ear toward the hall. Hearing Melanie’s steps die away into the kitchen where rattling

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50 CHAPTER L RHETT NEVER DEVIATED from his smooth, imperturbable manners, even in their most intimate moments. But

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51 CHAPTER LI WHEN SHE WAS FINALLY able to go out again, Scarlett had Lou lace her into stays as tightly as the strings

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52 CHAPTER LII ONE RAINY AFTERNOON when Bonnie was barely past her first birthday, Wade moped about the sitting room,

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53 CHAPTER LIII IT WAS Ashley’s birthday and Melanie was giving him a surprise reception that night. Everyone knew about the

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54 CHAPTER LIV SAFE IN HER ROOM AGAIN, Scarlett fell on the bed, careless of her moiré dress, bustle and roses. For a time

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55 CHAPTER LV “DARLING, I don’t want any explanation from you and I won’t listen to one,” said Melanie firmly as she gently

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56 CHAPTER LVI RHETT WAS GONE for three months and during that time Scarlett had no word from him. She did not know

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57 CHAPTER LVII IT WAS A PALE, thin woman that Rhett put on the Jonesboro train a month later. Wade and Ella, who were to

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58 CHAPTER LVIII IN THE TIME that followed her illness Scarlett noticed a change in Rhett and she was not altogether certain that

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59 CHAPTER LIX THERE WAS NO DOUBT in anyone’s mind that Bonnie Butler was running wild and needed a firm hand but

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60 CHAPTER LX SOMETHING WAS WRONG with the world, a somber, frightening wrongness that pervaded everything like a

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61 CHAPTER LXI SCARLETT WAS in Marietta when Rhett’s urgent telegram came. There was a train leaving for Atlanta in ten

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62 CHAPTER LXII SHE HEARD whispering voices outside, and going to the door she saw the frightened negroes standing in the

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63 CHAPTER LXIII THE FRONT DOOR was slightly ajar and she trotted, breathless, into the hall and paused for a moment under the

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