Reedle Откройте в мобильном приложении
Понятно
Понятно
Для того чтобы воспользоваться закладками, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Отмена
He
stopped
and
chuckled
as
he
tugged
at
his
gray
goatee
.
"
Oh
,
what
?
Do
tell
!
"
"
On
second
thought
I
believe
I
'll
keep
you
guessing
,
too
.
But
you
girls
must
stand
up
for
me
if
the
church
members
want
to
run
me
out
of
town
for
doing
it
.
However
,
it
's
for
the
hospital
.
You
'll
see
.
Nothing
like
this
has
ever
been
done
before
.
"
Отключить рекламу
He
went
off
pompously
toward
a
group
of
chaperons
in
one
corner
,
and
just
as
the
two
girls
had
turned
to
each
other
to
discuss
the
possibilities
of
the
secret
,
two
old
gentlemen
bore
down
on
the
booth
,
declaring
in
loud
voices
that
they
wanted
ten
miles
of
tatting
.
Well
,
after
all
,
old
gentlemen
were
better
than
no
gentlemen
at
all
,
thought
Scarlett
,
measuring
out
the
tatting
and
submitting
demurely
to
being
chucked
under
the
chin
.
The
old
blades
charged
off
toward
the
lemonade
booth
and
others
took
their
places
at
the
counter
.
Their
booth
did
not
have
so
many
customers
as
did
the
other
booths
where
the
tootling
laugh
of
Maybelle
Merriwether
sounded
and
Fanny
Elsing
's
giggles
and
the
Whiting
girls
'
repartee
made
merriment
.
Melly
sold
useless
stuff
to
men
who
could
have
no
possible
use
for
it
as
quietly
and
serenely
as
a
shopkeeper
,
and
Scarlett
patterned
her
conduct
on
Melly
's
.
There
were
crowds
in
front
of
every
other
counter
but
theirs
,
girls
chattering
,
men
buying
.
The
few
who
came
to
them
talked
about
how
they
went
to
the
university
with
Ashley
and
what
a
fine
soldier
he
was
or
spoke
in
respectful
tones
of
Charles
and
how
great
a
loss
to
Atlanta
his
death
had
been
.
Then
the
music
broke
into
the
rollicking
strains
of
"
Johnny
Booker
,
he
'
p
dis
Nigger
!
"
and
Scarlett
thought
she
would
scream
.
She
wanted
to
dance
.
She
wanted
to
dance
.
She
looked
across
the
floor
and
tapped
her
foot
to
the
music
and
her
green
eyes
blazed
so
eagerly
that
they
fairly
snapped
.
All
the
way
across
the
floor
,
a
man
,
newly
come
and
standing
in
the
doorway
,
saw
them
,
started
in
recognition
and
watched
closely
the
slanting
eyes
in
the
sulky
,
rebellious
face
.
Then
he
grinned
to
himself
as
he
recognized
the
invitation
that
any
male
could
read
.
Отключить рекламу
He
was
dressed
in
black
broadcloth
,
a
tall
man
,
towering
over
the
officers
who
stood
near
him
,
bulky
in
the
shoulders
but
tapering
to
a
small
waist
and
absurdly
small
feet
in
varnished
boots
.
His
severe
black
suit
,
with
fine
ruffled
shirt
and
trousers
smartly
strapped
beneath
high
insteps
,
was
oddly
at
variance
with
his
physique
and
face
,
for
he
was
foppishly
groomed
,
the
clothes
of
a
dandy
on
a
body
that
was
powerful
and
latently
dangerous
in
its
lazy
grace
.
His
hair
was
jet
black
,
and
his
black
mustache
was
small
and
closely
clipped
,
almost
foreign
looking
compared
with
the
dashing
,
swooping
mustaches
of
the
cavalrymen
near
by
.
He
looked
,
and
was
,
a
man
of
lusty
and
unashamed
appetites
.
He
had
an
air
of
utter
assurance
,
of
displeasing
insolence
about
him
,
and
there
was
a
twinkle
of
malice
in
his
bold
eyes
as
he
stared
at
Scarlett
,
until
finally
,
feeling
his
gaze
,
she
looked
toward
him
.
Somewhere
in
her
mind
,
the
bell
of
recognition
rang
,
but
for
the
moment
she
could
not
recall
who
he
was
.
But
he
was
the
first
man
in
months
who
had
displayed
an
interest
in
her
,
and
she
threw
him
a
gay
smile
.
She
made
a
little
curtsy
as
he
bowed
,
and
then
,
as
he
straightened
and
started
toward
her
with
a
peculiarly
lithe
Indian-like
gait
,
her
hand
went
to
her
mouth
in
horror
,
for
she
knew
who
he
was
.
Thunderstruck
,
she
stood
as
if
paralyzed
while
he
made
his
way
through
the
crowd
.
Then
she
turned
blindly
,
bent
on
flight
into
the
refreshment
rooms
,
but
her
skirt
caught
on
a
nail
of
the
booth
.
She
jerked
furiously
at
it
,
tearing
it
and
,
in
an
instant
,
he
was
beside
her
.