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@@@@@Gentlemen flocked to meet the rich widow who was also-mirabile dicrv-iantastically beautiful Mothers swarmed her private reception room with daughters in tow to meet the gentlemenAfter the first day, Charlotte never ordered flowers againAdmirers sent so many that there wasn't room for all of themMany of the bouquets contained leather cases from Dublin's finest jeweler, but Scarlett reluctantly returned all the brooches, bracelets, rings, earrings"Even an American from Clayton County, Georgia, knows that you're expected to pay back favors," she told Charlotte"I won't be obligated to anybody, not that way Her goings and comings were reported faithfully and sometimes even accurately in the gossip column of the daily f TimeShop owners in morning coats came themselves to show her choice items they hoped she might like, and she defiantly bought herself many of the jewelry pieces she had refused to acceptThe Viceroy danced with her twice at the State BallAll the guests at her coffees and teas admired her portraitScarlett looked at it every morning and every afternoon before the first visitors arrivedShe was learning herself Charlotte Montague observed the metamorphosis with interestThe practiced flirt vanished, replaced by a serene, somewhat amused woman who had only to turn her smoky green eyes on man, woman, or child to draw them, mesmerized, to her sideI used to work like a mule to be charming, Scarlett thought, now I don't do anything at allShe couldn't understand it at all, but she accepted the gift of it with simple gratitude"Did you say two hundred people, Charlotte? That's what you call a small dance?" "RelativelyThere are always five or six hundred at the State and Saint Patrick's balls and more than a thousand at the Drawing Rooms You certainly already know at least half the people who7l be there, probably many more than half "I still think it's tacky that you weren't invited "It's the way things are Charlotte was anticipating the evening with pleasureShe planned to go over account bookScarlett's success and Scarlett 5 extravagance greatly exceeded even Charlotte's most optimistic expectatio