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Lucinda Wragg, now Lucinda Grimball, was throwing flowers from her bouquet down to the soldiers"Humph! I'd sooner throw brickbats myself!" "I'm sure you wouldYou've always liked the obviousLucinda's way requires imagination His amused, lazy drawl had become viciously cutting Scarlett tossed her head"I'm going back insideI'd a far sight rather be suffocated than insulted Unseen in the shadow of a nearby column, Rosemary cringed at the cruelty she heard in Rhett's voice and the angry hurt in Scarlett'sLater that night, after bedtime, she tapped on the door of the library where Rhett was reading, then entered and closed the door behind herHer face was blotched red from weeping"I thought I knew you, Rhett," she blurted, "but I don't at allI heard you talking to Scarlett tonight on the porch of the Hall How could you be so mean to your own wife? Who are you going to turn on rolex watch for sale next?"Rhett rose quickly from his chair and started towards his sister with his arms outstretchedBut Rosemary held her hands up in front of her, palms outward, and backed awayHis face darkened with pain, and he stood very still, his arms at hissidesHe wanted-above all things-to shield Rosemary from hurt, and now he was the source of her anguishHis mind was filled with Rosemary's short sad story and his part in itRhett had never regretted or explained anything he had done in his tempestuous younger yearsThere was nothing he was ashamed of Except the effects on his young sisterBecause of his rebellious defiance of family and society, his father had disowned himRhett's name was only an inked-over line in the Butler family Bible when Rosemary's birth was recordedShe was more than twenty years hisjuniorHe did not even see her until she was thirteen, an awkward girl with long legs, low price prada bags large feet, and budding breasts Their mother had disobeyed her husband for one of the few times in her life when Rhett began the dangerous life of blockade runner through the Union fleet and into Charleston HarborShe came by night to the dock where his ship was moored, bringing Rosemary to meet himThe deep vein of loving tenderness in Rhett was inexpressively moved by the confusion and need that he sensed in his young sister, and he welcomed her to his shirt with all the warmth that their father had never been able to giveIn turn, Rosemary gave him the trust and loyalty that their father had never in spiredThe bond between brother and sister had never been severed, despite the fact that they saw each other no more than a dozen times from first meeting until Rhett came home to Charleston eleven years laterHe had never forgiven himself for accepting their mother's reassurance that cheap louis vuitton replicas Rosemary was well and happy and sheltered by the money he lavished on them once his father was dead and could no longer intercept and return itHe should have been more alert, more attentive, he accused himself laterThen perhaps his sister would not have grown up distrusting men the way she did Perhaps she would have loved and married and had childrenAs it was, when he returned home he found a twenty-four-year- old woman with the same awkwardness of the thirteen-year-old he had first metShe was uncomfortable with all men except him; she used the distant lives in novels as a substitute for the uncertainty of life in the world; she rejected the conventions of society about how a woman should look and think and behaveRosemary was a bluestocking, distressingly forthright, and totally lacking in feminine wiles and vanityRhett loved her, and he respected her prickly independenceHe chanel purses and handbags couldn't make up for the years he'd missed, but he could give her the rarest gift of all-his inner selfHe was completely honest with Rosemary, talked to her as an equal and, on occasion, even confided the secrets of his shirt to her, as he had never done to any other personShe recognized the immensity of hisgift, and she adored himIn the fourteen months that Rhett had been home, the over-tall, illat-ease, innocent spinster and the oversophisticated, disillusioned adventurer had become the closest of friendsNow Rosemary felt betrayedShe'd seen a side of Rhett that she hadn't known existed, a streak of cruelty in the brother she'd known as unfailingly kind and loving She was confused and distrustful"You haven't answered my question, Rhett Rosemary's reddened eyes were accusing"I'm sorry, Rosemary," he said cautiously"I am deeply sorry you happened to hear meIt was something I had chanel jewelry for sale to