"I am deeply sorry you happened to hear meIt was...
"I am deeply sorry you happened to hear meIt
was something I had to doI want her to go away and leave all of us
alone
"But she's your wife!"
"I left her, RosemaryShe w,o,uldn't divorce me as I offered, but she
knew the marriage was over"Then why is she here?" Rhett
shrugged
"Perhaps we should sit downIt's a long, tiring story Slowly,
methodically, rigidly unemotional, Rhett told his sister about Scarlett's
two earlier marriages, about his proposal and Scarlett's agreement to
marry him for his moneyHe also told her about Scarlett's
near-obsessive love for Ashley Wilkes throughout all the years cheap gucci handbags he'd
known her"But if you knew that, why on earth did you marry her?"
Rosemary asked"Why?" Rhett's mouth twisted in a smile
"Because she was so full of fire and so recklessly, stubbornly brave
Because she was such a child beneath all her pretenses
Because she was unlike any woman I had ever knownShe fascinated
me,
infuriated me, drove me madI loved her as consumingly as she
loved
himFrom the day I first laid eyes on herIt was a kind of
disease There was a weight of sorrow in his voiceHe bowed his
head
into his two hands and laughed shakilyHis voice was muffled and
blurred by his fingers"What a prada patchwork bag grotesque practical joke life isNow
Ashley Wilkes is a free man and would marry Scarlett on a moment's
notice, and I want to be rid of herNaturally that makes her
determined to have meShe wants only what she cannot have
Rhett raised his head"I'm afraid," he said quietly, "afraid that it
will all begin againI know that she's heartless and completely
selfish, that she's like a child who cries for a toy and then breaks it
once she has itBut there are moments when she tilts her head at a
certain angle, or she smiles that gleeful smile, or she suddenly looks
lost-and I come close to forgetting what I very cheap chanel bags know Rosemary put her hand on his armHe covered it
with
his ownThen he smiled at her, and he was himself again"You see
before you, my dear, the man who was once the marvel of the
Mississippi
riverboatsI've gambled all my life, and I've never lostI'll win
this hand, tooScarlett and I have made a dealI couldn't risk
having her here in this house too longEither I would fall in love
with her again or I would kill herSo I dangled gold in front of her,
and her greed for money outbalanced the undying love she professes
for
meShe will be leaving for good when the Season is overUntil then
all I have to chanel classic bags do is keep her at a distance, outlast her, and outwit
herI'm almost looking forward to itShe hates to lose, and she
lets it showIt's no fun beating someone who's a good loser His
eyes laughed at his sister"It would destroy
Mama
if she knew the truth about my miserable marriage, but she'd be
ashamed
if she knew that I'd walked out on it, no matter how unhappy it was
This way, Scarlett will leave, I will be the injured but bravely stoic
party, and there'll be no disgrace
"And no regrets?"
"Only for having been a fool once-years agoI'll have the very
powerful solace of not being a fool the second rolex 18k watches ti