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Gone with the Wind (World Library. Junior Edition)(Chinese Edition)

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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