"I'll go with you, Henry. Dolly will be fit to be tied when she hears I've gone. Wait till I get one more drink."
"No, we'll get a drink off Captain Butler. I'll say this for him, he always has good licker."
Rhett had said that the Old Guard would never surrender and he was right. He knew how little significance there was to the few calls made upon them, and he knew why the calls were made. The families of the men who had been in the ill-starred Klan foray did call first, but called with obvious infrequency thereafter. And they did not invite the Rhett Butlers to their homes.
Rhett said they would not have come at all, except for fear of violence at the hands of Melanie, Where he got this idea, Scarlett did not know but she dismissed it with the contempt it deserved. For what possible influen……
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