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colored
cape?" Scarlett frowned
What on earth were they talking about? She quietly descended the
ladder and walked on tiptoe to press her ear against the wall"No,
ma'am," she heard the clerk say"We don't get much call for
velvet
"Just what I should have expected
"As long as we're here, maybe I can find the feathers I need for my
Pocahontas," Maybelle was "NonsenseWe should never
have
come hereSuppose someone saw usMerriwether's tread was
heavy but rapidShe slammed the door behind herScarlett climbed
up
the ladder againAll her Christmas spirit was goneSomeone was
having a costume party, and she wasn't invitedShe wished she'd let
Ashley break his neck in Melanie's grave! She found the box she was
looking for and threw it down to the floor, where it burst, scattering
the dior saddle bag brightly colored fans in a wide arc"Now you pick them up and
dust off every single one of them," she ordered
She'd rather die than start boohooing in front of her own clerksThe
day's newspaper was on the seat of her carriage
She'd been too busy with the decorations to read it as yetAnd she
didn't much care about reading it now, but it would hide her face from
any nosybody looking in at herScarlett straightened out the bend in
it and opened it to the center page for "Our Charleston Letter It
was all about the Washington Race Course, newly reopened, and the
upcoming Race Day in JanuaryScarlett skimmed over the rapturous
descriptions of Race Weeks before the War, the customary Charleston
claims to have had the finest, most elaborate everything, and the
predictions that the races to come would equal their predecessors if
not surpass chanel white bag themAccording to the correspondent, there would be
parties all day every day and a ball every night for weeks"And Rhett
Butler at every one of them, I'll bet," Scarlett mutteredShe threw
the newspaper on the floorA front-page headline caught her eye
CARNIVAL TO CONCLUDE WITH MASQUERADE BALLThat must be
what the old
dragon and Maybelle were talking about, she thoughtEveryone in the
world except me is going to wonderful partiesShe snatched the
paper
up again to read the article: It can now be announced, planning and
preparations being complete, that Atlanta will be graced on January
6th
next with a Carnival sure to rival the magnificence of New Orleans'
famous Mardi GrasThe Twelfth Night Revelers is a body lately
formed
by our city's leading figures from the worlds of society and business,
and the instigators of this big black bag fabulous eventThe King of Carnival will
reign over Atlanta, attended by a Court of Noblemen
He will enter the city and transverse it on a royal float in a parade
that is expected to exceed a mile in lengthAll the city's citizens,
his subjects for the day, are invited to view the parade and marvel at
its wondersSchedule and parade route will be announced in a later
edition of this newspaperThe day-long revels will conclude at a
Masked Ball for which DeGives Opera House will be transformed into a
veritable WonderlandThe Revelers have distributed almost three
hundred invitations to Atlanta's finest Knights and fairest Ladies"Damn!" said ScarlettThen desolation took hold of her, and she
began to cry like a childIt wasn't fair for Rhett to be dancing and
laughing in Charleston and all her enemies in Atlanta to be having a
good time cartier watches women while she was stuck by herself in her huge silent house
She'd never done anything bad enough to deserve such punishment
You've never been so lily-livered that you let them make you cry,
either, she told herself angrilyScarlett rubbed the tears away with
the backs of her wristsShe wasn't going to wallow in miseryShe
was going to go after what she wantedShe'd go to the Ball;
somehow
she'd find a wayIt was not impossible to get an invitation to the
Ball, it wasn't even difficultScarlett learned that the vaunted
parade would be made up largely of decorated wagons advertising
products and storesThere was a fee for participants, of course, as
well as the cost of decorating the "float," but all those businesses in
the parade received two invitations to the BallShe sent Willie
Kershaw with the money to enter Kennedy's Emporium in the zucca spy fendi bag pa |
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