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Chapter 5

           Insummers,theCountyaveragedabarbecueandballnearlyeveryweek,buttothered-hairedTarletonswiththeirenormouscapacityforenjoyingthemselves,eachbarbecueandeachballwasasexcitingasifitwerethefirsttheyhadeverattended.Theywereapretty,buxomquartette,socrammedintothecarriagethattheirhoopsandflouncesoverlappedandtheirparasolsnudgedandbumpedtogetherabovetheirwideleghornsunhats,crownedwithrosesanddanglingwithblackvelvetchinribbons.Allshadesofredhairwererepresentedbeneaththesehats,Hetty’splainredhair,Camilla’sstrawberryblonde,Randa’scopperyauburnandsmallBetsy’scarrottop.

           "That’safinebevy,Ma’m,"saidGeraldgallantly,reininghishorsealongsidethecarriage."Butit’sfarthey’llgotobeattheirmother."

           Mrs.Tarletonrolledherred-browneyesandsuckedinherlowerlipinburlesquedappreciation,andthegirlscried,"Ma,stopmakingeyesorwe’lltellPa!""Ivow,Mr.O’Hara,shenevergivesusachancewhenthere’sahandsomemanlikeyouaround!"

           Scarlettlaughedwiththerestatthesesalliesbut,asalways,thefreedomwithwhichtheTarletonstreatedtheirmothercameasashock.Theyactedasifshewereoneofthemselvesandnotadayoversixteen.ToScarlett,theveryideaofsayingsuchthingstoherownmotherwasalmostsacrilegious.AndyetandyettherewassomethingverypleasantabouttheTarletongirls’relationswiththeirmother,andtheyadoredherforallthattheycriticizedandscoldedandteasedher.Not,Scarlettloyallyhastenedtotellherself,thatshewouldpreferamotherlikeMrs.TarletontoEllen,butstillitwouldbefuntorompwithamother.SheknewthateventhatthoughtwasdisrespectfultoEllenandfeltashamedofit.

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