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"I was so surprised to run into him like that," Scarlett said
quickly
"How do you happen to know him?" He didn't really know Rhett at all,
Bart repliedSome old friends had written to him a month ago, saying
that they were sending Rhert to look at his horsesThen Rhett had
arrived, bearing a letter of introduction from them"He's a
remarkable fellow, really serious about horsesI wish he could have stayed longerAre you old
friends? He never quite got around to telling meThank goodness,
thought Scarlett"I have some family in Charleston," she said
met him when I was visiting there
"Then you must have met my friends the Brewtons! When I was at
Cambridge I'd go down to London for the Season just in hopes that
Sally
Brewton might have come overI was mad for her, just like
everybody
else
"Sally Brewton!
That monkey face?" Scarlett blurted before she thoughtIsn't she marvelous? She's such an original ú ú
Scarlett nodded enthusiastically, and smiledBut in truth she'd never
understand how men could be mad for anyone that uglyJohn
Morland
assumed that everyone who knew Sally must certainly adore her, and
he
talked about her for the next half hour while he leaned on the pasture
fence and tried to entice Half Moon to come get the oats he held in
hispalmScarlett half-listened while she thought her own thoughts
Then Rhett's name captured her full attentionBart chuckled as he
recounted the gossip Sally had included in her letterRhett had into
the oldest snare in history, it seemedSome orphanage was having
an
outing at his country place, and one of the orphans turned missing
when
it was time to leaveSo what did he do but go with the schoolteacher
to search for itAll ended well, the child found, but not until after
dark
Which meant, of course, that spinster teacher was compromised, and
Rhett had to marry h