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With no grain to sell and no rents to collect,...Saturday 8 May 2010
With no grain to sell and no rents to collect, she was going to lose money this yearThe knowledge bothered her, because she had a] ways made money in business and losing it was a highly disagreeable changeBut Scarlett had grown up in a world where it was accepted that sometimes a crop failed or a storm wrought havocShe knew that next year would be different, and certainly betterShe was not a failure because of the disaster of the drought and the hailIt wasn't like the lumber business or the store where she would have been responsible if there had been no profitBesides, the losses would barely make a dent in her fortunecould be extravagant for the rest of her life, and the fake louis vuitton bags crops at hara could fail every year, and she would still have plenty of money Scarlett sighed unconsciouslyFor so many years she worked and scrimped and saved, thinking that if only she could I enough money, she would be happy Now she had it, thanks Rhett, and somehow it didn't mean anything at allExcept that t was no longer anything to work for, to scheme and strive forShe wasn't foolish enough to want to be poor and despei again, but she needed to be challenged, to use her quick" to conquer obstaclesAnd so she thought with longing about jumping fences and ditches and taking chances on a powerful horse she controlled by force of willWhen the accounts were done, Scarlett turned to pasha cartier watches blue face the pile personal mail with a silent groanShe hated writing lettersShe ready knew what was in the mailMany were invitationsShe them in a stackharriet could pen the polite refusals for her, no would know she hadn't written them herself, and harriet loved usefulThere were two more proposalsScarlett received at least weekThey pretended to be love letters, but she knew very well they wouldn't be there if she wasn't a rich widow Most of them, anyhowShe replied to the first one with the convenient phrases about "honored by your regard" and "unable to return your affection to the degree you merit" and "place incalculable value on your friendship" that protocol demanded and suppliedThe very cheap chanel bags second was not so easyIt was from Charles Ragland Of all the men she had met in Ireland, Charles was the most truly eligible to herHis adoration was convincing, not at all like the elaborate fawning over her that so many men didhe wasn't after her money, she was sure of thathe came from money himself, his people were big landowners in Englandhe was a younger son, and he'd chosen the army instead of the ChurchBut he must have some money of his own His dress uniform cost more than all her ball gowns put together, she was sureWhat else? Charles was handsome Ne was as big as Rhett, only blond instead of darkNot washed-out blond, though, like so many fair peopleHis hair was gold, omega mens watch on sale with just a touch of red in it, startling against his tanned skinNe was really very good lookingWomen looked at him like they could eat him with a spoonSo why didn't she love him? She had thought about it, she'd thought often and longBut she couldn't, she didn't care enoughI want to love somebodyI know how it feels to love, it's the best feeling in the worldI can't bear the unfairness, that I learned about loving too lateCharles loves me, and I want to be loved, I need itI'm lonely by myself without it Why can't I love him? Because I love Rhett, that's whyThat's why for Charles and for every other man in the worldThey're none of them RhettYou will never have Rhett, her mind told fake vintage chanel wallet he

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