He looked directly ahead at the dusty red... 957
He looked directly ahead at the
dusty red road"They showed me the new papers about Tara over to
the
County Court HouseSeems like you done got hold of Carreen's
share
I don't know what your thinking is, Scarlett, and I ain't askingBut
I'm telling you thisIf anybody comes up the road flapping something
legal at me 'bout taking Tara, I plan to meet 'em at the end of the
drive with a shotgun in my hand
"Will, I swear on a stack of Bibles, I'm not planning to do anything to
Tara Scarlett was grateful it was the truthWill's softspoken
nasal drawl was more frightening than the loudest shout could ever
be
"I'm glad to hear itMy figuring is it should be Wade'sHe's your
pa's only grandson, and land should dior saddle bag stay in the familyI'm hoping
you'll leave him where he is, Scarlett, to be my right hand and like a
son to me, just the way he is nowYou'll do what you want to doI gave Wade my word I'd talk to you, and now I have
We'll leave it there, if you don't mindI said all I got to say
"I'll think about it," Scarlett promised
The wagon creaked along the familiar road and she saw that the land
she'd known as cultivated fields was now all gone back to scrub trees
and rough weed grassesWill saw the slope of
her shoulders and the droop of her mouth"Where you been this last
couple of years, Scarlett? If it wasn't for Carreen we wouldn't have
known where you'd gone to at all, but then she lost track, too
Scarlett gucci ladies watch forced herself to smile"I've been having adventures, Will,
travelling all over the placeI visited my O 'Hara kinfolks, tooA
bunch of them are in Savannah, the nicest people you'd ever want to
meetI stayed with them ever so long
And then I went to Ireland to meet some moreYou can't imagine
how
many O'Haras there are Her throat clogged with tearsShe held the
leather pouch to her breast"Will, I brought something for Pa
Will you let me off at the graveyard and keep everybody away for a
little while?"
"Glad to Scarlett knelt in the sun by Gerald O'Hara's graveThe
black Irish soil filtered through her fingers to mix with the red clay
dust of Georgia"Ach, Pa," she murmured, and the meter of her
words
was purse logo Irish, "it's a grand place to be sure, County MeathYou're
remembered well, Pa, by all of themI didn't know, Pa, I'm sorryI
didn't know you should be having a fine wake and all the stories told
Ubout when you were a boy She lifted her head and the sunlight
gleamed in the flood of tears down her faceHer voice was cracked,
clogged with weeping, but she did the best she could, and her grief
was
strong"Why did you ieavc me? O:lion! O:lion, Cchon, Ubogon 01"
Scarlett was glad she hadn't told anyone in Savannah about her plan
to
take Wade and Ella back to Ireland with herNow she didn't have to
explain why she'd left them at Tara; it would have been so humiliating
to tell the truth, that her own children balenciaga blue didn't want her, that they
were strangers to her and she to themShe couldn't admit to anyone,
not even herself, how much it hurt and how much she blamed herself
She felt small and mean; she could hardly even be glad for Ella and
Wade, who were so obviously happyEverything had hurt at Tara
She'd
felt like a strangerExcept for Grandma Robillard's portrait, she
hardly recognized anything in the houseSuellen had used the money
every month to buy new furniture and furnishingsThe unscarred
wood
of the tables was glaringly shiny to Scarlett's eyes, the colors in the
rugs and curtains too brightAnd the baking heat she'd
longed for in the Irish rains gave her a headache that lasted the whole
week she was old omega watches there
