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@@@@@After their working hours as clerks or laborers, former plantation owners took the streetcars or walked to the outskirts of the city to rebuild the two-mile oval of the Charleston Race Course and to plant the blood-soaked churned mud of the land around it with grass seed bought with combined widow's mitesLittle by little, by symbols and by inches, Charlestonians were regaining the essence of their beloved lost worldBut there was no room in it for anyone who didn't belong there couldn't hide her amazement at the orders Scarlett gave her when she was unlacing for bed the first night in the Butler house"Take the green walking-out costume I wore this morning and give it a good brushingThen take off every speck of trimming, including the gold buttons, and sew on some plain black buttons instead "Where I going to find any black buttons, Miss Scarlett?" "Don't bother me with fool questions like thatButler's maid-what's her name? CelieAnd wake me up tomorrow at five o'clock "Five o'clock?" "Are you deaf? You heard meI want that green outfit ready to put on when I get up Scarlett sank gratefully into the feather mattress and down pillows on the big bedIt had been an over-full, over-emotional dayMeeting Miss Eleanor, then shopping, then that silly Confederate Home meeting, then Rhett appearing from nowhere with the silver tea service Her hand stretched over to the empty space beside herShe wanted him there, but perhaps it was better to wait a few days, until she was really accepted in Charleston That miserable Ross! She wouldn't think about him or those horrible things he'd said and doneMiss Eleanor had denied him the house, and she wouldn't have to see him, she hoped not ever againShe'd think about something elseShe'd think about Miss Eleanor, who loved her and who was going to help her get Rhett back, even if she didn't know that's what she was doingThe Market, Miss Eleanor had said, was the place to meet everybody and hear all the newsSo to the Market she would gotomorrowScarlett would have been happier if it wasn't necessary to go so early, at six o'clockI have to say this for Charleston, she thought sleepily, it's plenty busy, and I like thatShe was only halfway through a yawn when she fell asleep