Margaret Mitchell

The American Civil War-era novel by Margaret Mitchell. The story is set in Clayton County and Atlanta, both in Georgia, during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era. It depicts the struggles of young Scarlett O'Hara, the spoiled daughter of a well-to-do plantation owner, who must use every means at her disposal to claw her way out of poverty following Sherman's destructive "March to the Sea".

Gone with the Wind

Selina 

Over the waffles next morning, Pittypat was lachrymose, Melanie was silent and Scarlett defiant.

‘Starving’s not pleasant,’ he said. ‘I know for I’ve starved, but I’m not afraid of that. I am afraid of facing life without the slow beauty of our old world that is gone.’

‘There’s only one way you can help me,’ she said dully, ‘and that’s to take me away from here and give us a new start somewhere, with a chance for happiness. There’s nothing to keep us here.’ 

‘Nothing,’ he said quietly, ‘nothing- except honour.’

Now he saw that she understood entirely too well and he felt the usual masculine indignation at the duplicity of women. Added to it was the usual masculine disillusionment in discovering that a woman has a brain.

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