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07.06.2010 um 18:55 Uhr

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Then 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 louis vuitton neo cabby 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 vintage hermes only halfway through a yawn when she fell asleep The Market was the perfect place for Scarlett to begin the life of a Charleston lady The Market was an outward, visible distillation of Charleston's essenceFrom the city's earliest days it had been the place where Charlestonians bought their foodThe lady of the house-or, in rare cases, the man-selected and paid for it, a maid or coachman received it and placed it in a basket hung over the armBefore the War the food was sold by slaves who had transported it from their masters' plantationsMany of the vendors were in the places they had been before, only now they were free, and the baskets were carried by servants who were paid for their service; like the vendors, many of them were the same chanel handbag 2.55 people, carrying the same baskets they had before What was important to Charleston was that the old ways hadn't changed Tradition was the bedrock of society, the birthright of Charleston's people, the priceless inheritance that no carpetbagger or soldier could stealIt was made manifest in the MarketOutsiders could shop there; it was public property But they found it frustratingSomehow they could never quite catch the eye of the woman who was selling vegetables, the man selling crabs Black citizens were as proudly Charlestonian as white ones When the foreigner left, the whole Market rang with laughterThe Market was for Charleston's people onlyScarlett hunched her shoulders to lift her collar higher on her neckA cold finger of wind got inside vintage cartier watch it despite her efforts, and she shivered violently Her eyes felt full of cinders, and she was sure her boots must be lined with leadHow many miles could there be in five city blocks? She couldn't see a thingThe street lamps were only a bright circle of mist within mist in the ghostly gray pre-dawn halflight How can Miss Eleanor be so cursed cheery? Chattering away as if it wasn't freezing cold and black as pitchThere was some light ahead-way aheadScarlett stumbled towards itShe wished the miserable wind would die downWhat was that? In the windIt was! It was coffeeMaybe she'd live after all Her steps matched MrsButler's in an eager, accelerated paceThe Market was like a bazaar, an oasis of light and warmth, color and life in the formless gray coco chanel jewelry m

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