Scarlett squinted up at the sun, saw the clouds...
By merowvst, 09:11Scarlett
squinted
up at the sun, saw the clouds racing towards it, knew that soon it
would rain, and soon after that it would clear again, and the sun would
warm the fields until the next rain, followed by the next warming
sunlightI'll feel the baking heat of Georgia sun one more time, she
decided, I'm entitled to thatI miss it sometimes so terriblyBut,
somehow, Tara's more like a dream than a memoryIt belongs in the
past, like the Scarlett I used to beThat life and that person don't
have anything to do with me any moreCat's
Tara
is the Irish TaraI'm The O'Hara of BallyharaI'll keep my shares of Tara for Wade and Ella's inheritance, but I'll
sell everything in Atlanta and cut those tiesBallyhara's my home
nowOur roots go deep here, quilted chanel purse Cat's and mine and Pa'sI'll take some
O 'Hara land with me when I go, some earth to mix into the Georgia
clay
of Gerald O'Hara's graveHer mind touched briefly on the business she had to deal withWhat she must concentrate on was the best way to
tell
Wade and Ella about their wonderful new homeThey wouldn't believe
she wanted them-why should they? In truth she never hadUntil she discovered what it felt like to love a child, to be a real
motherIt's going to be hard, Scarlett told herself many times, but I
can do itI can make up for the pastI've got so much love in me
that it just spills overI want to give some to my son and my
daughterThey might not like Ireland at first, it's so different, but
once we go to Market Day a couple of times, omega automatic seamaster watch and the races, and I buy
them their own ponies Ella should look darling in skirts and
petticoats, tooAll little girls love to dress up They'll have
millions of cousins, with all the O 'Haras around, and the children in
Ballyhara town to play with You cannot leave until after Easter,
Scarlett darling," said Colum"There's a ceremony on Good Friday
that
only The O 'Hara can do Scarlett didn't argueBeing The O'Hara
was
too important to herWhat difference could it
possibly make who planted the first potato? It irritated her, too,
that Colum wouldn't go with herAnd that he was away so much
lately"On business," he saidWell, why couldn't he do his fundraising in Savannah again, instead of
wherever else he went to? The truth was that chanel jumbo everything irritated
herNow that she had decided to go, she wanted to be goneShe was
snappish with Margaret Scanlon, the dressmaker, because it took so
long
to have her dresses madeScanlon looked so
interested when Scarlett ordered dresses in colorful silks and linens
as well as mourning black"I'll be seeing my sister in America,"
Scarlett said airily, "the colors are a gift for her And I don't
care whether you believe that or not, she thought crosslyI'm not
really a widow, and I'm about to go back to Atlanta looking drab and
dowdySuddenly her utilitarian black skirt and stockings and shirt
and shawl had unspeakably depressing to herShe could hardly wait
for
the when she could put on the green linen frock with the wide ruffles
thick creamy cartier pasha watch laceOr the pink and navy striped silk If Marga Scanlon ever finished
them"You'll be surprised when you see how pretty your Momma
looks in
her new dresses," Scarlett told Cat"I've ordered some wonderful
little frocks for you, too The baby smiled, showing her small
collection of teeth"You're going to love the big ship," Scarlett
promised herShe had reserved the largest and best stateroom on
the
Brian Boa for departure from Galway on the Friday following EasterOn
Palm Sunday the weather turned cold, with hard slanting rain that was
still falling on Good FridayScarlett was soaking wet and chilled to the bone after the long
ceremony on the open fieldShe hurried to the Big House as soon
after
as she could, longing for a hot bath and a pot knock off chanel earrings of


