| Her eyes were even rounder than usualSirjohn Moriand, Bart
Scarlett ran down the stairs"Bart! What a surpriseCome in, we
can sit on the stepsI don't have any furniture She was genu ?nely
pleased to see him, but she couldn't take him up to her sitting room
Cat was having her nap next doorBart Morland sat down on the
stone
steps as if it were the most atural thing in the world to have no
furnitureHe'd had the devil f a time finding her, he said, until he
ran into the postman in the arThat was his only excuse for being so
late delivering her trophy from the hunt
Scarlett looked at the silver plaque with her name and the date f the
huntThe fox pad was no chanel handbags longer bloody, that was something, ut it
was
not a thing of beauty"Disgusting, isn't it?" said Bart
cheerfullyNo matter what Colum said, she liked John orland
"Would you like to say hello to Half Moon?"
"Thought you'd never suggest itI was wondering how to drop really
weighty hintHow is he?" Scarlett made a face"Underexercised, I'm
afraidI feel guilty bout it, but I've been very busy
"How's your crop?"
"So far, so goodIf we don't get a real rain They walked through
the colonnade and out to the stable
Scarlett was going to pass it on the way to the pasture and Half Moon,
ut Bart stopped herCould he go inside? Her stables were famous, nd
he'd never balenciaga handbags hobo seen themScarlett was puzzled, but she agreed readly
The horses were at work or pasture, so there was nothing to see
except
empty stalls, but if he wanted to see themThe stalls were separated by
granite columns with Doric capials
Tall vaulting sprang up from the columns to meet and cross and create
a
ceiling of stone that looked as light and weightless as air and sky
John Morland cracked his knuckles, then apologizedWhen he as
really
excited, he said, he did it without thinking"You don't nd it
extraordinary to have a stable that looks like a cathedral?
I'd ut an organ in it and play Bach to the horses all day
"Probably give them strangles Morland's cartier pasha c watches whooping laugh made
Scarlett
laugh, too; he sounded o comicShe filled a small bag with oats for
him to feed Half MoonWalking beside Morland, Scarlett searched her
mind for some ay to interrupt his admiring chatter about her stables,
something asual she could say to start him talking about Rhett"I say, what luck for me that you're friends with Rhett
Butler," Bart exclaimed"If he hadn't introduced us, I'd never have
gotten a look at those stables of yours
"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, coco chanel balck and white bags 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 fake louis vuitton bags thought |
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