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roomQuiet, you heathens, let your Pa catch his breath, can’t you?
Then wash your faces and come meet Scarlett one by one She
plucked
Scarlett’s fur cape from her shoulders”Put this in a safe place,
Mary Kate, else the baby will think it’s a kitten to pull the tail on,
so soft is it The larger of the girls bobbed a curtsey in Scarlett’s
direction and held out eager hands for the furHer blue eyes were
huge with admirationScarlett smiled at herAnd at Maureen, even
though Jamie’s wife was pushing her down onto a Windsor chair as if
she
thought Scarlett was one of her children to be ordered aroundIn an
instant Scarlett found herself holding the biggest cup she had ever
seen in one hand while, with the other, she was shaking hands with a
startlingly beautiful young girl who whispered, “She looks like a
princess,” to her mother, and, “I’m Helen,” to Scarlett”You should
touch the furs, Helen,” said Mary Kate importantly”Is Helen the
guest here, then, that you’re addressing yourself to her?” Maureen
said”What a disgrace for a mother to have such an eejit child Her
voice was warm with affection and suppressed laughterMary Kate’s
cheeks stained with embarrassmentShe curtseyed again and held
out
her hand”Cousin Scarlett, I ask your pardonI forgot myself in
looking at your elegancesI’m Mary Kate, and it’s proud I am to be
cousin to such a grand lady Scarlett wanted to say no pardon was
needed, but she had no chanceJamie had taken off his hat and his
suit
coat and unbuttoned hisvestUnder his right arm he was holding a
child, a kicking, squealing, chubby, redheaded bundle of delighted
struggle”And this little devil is Sean, named John like a good
American boy because he was born right here in SavannahSay hello to your cousin, Jacky, if you’ve got a tongue in your
head
“Hello!” shouted the little boy, then shrieked with excitement when
his father turned him upside down
“What’s all this now?” The noise, except for Jacky’s giggles, died
down at once when the thin querulous tones cut through the ra

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The Scoto’s center gallery was large, which was a
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“We keepin you up, boss?” Angel Slobotnik said
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A man in a suit that had to’ve cost two grand
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while I buy some oysters for a nice pie Savannah’s City Market had
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Savannah’s busy seaport if only she’d had her maid to carry it
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the
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in
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BROWN: The ones with kids are the worstThey’re the ones who’re bored and really need a good timeThere ain’t a woman is worth a goddam
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MINETTA: Aaah, fug youYou think you’re pretty goddam good

7

AFTER the night when the Japanese failed to cross the river, the first squad remained in its position for three daysOn the fourth day, 1st Battalion advanced a half mile and recon moved up with A CompanyTheir new outpost was on the crest of a hill which looked down into a tiny valley of kunai grass; they spent the rest of the week digging new holes, stringing barbed wire, and making routine patrolsThe front had become quietNothing happened to the platoon, and they seldom saw any other men except for the platoon of A Company whose positions were on an adjoining hill a few hundred yards awayThe bluffs of Watamai Range were still on their right, quite close, and in the late afternoon the cliffs hung over them like a wave of surf about to break
The men in recon spent their days sitting in the sun on top of the hillThere was nothing to do except eat their rations and sleep and write letters and stand guard in their foxholesThe mornings were pleasant and new, but by afternoon the men were sullen and drowsy, and at night they found it hard to sleep, for the wind moved the grass in the valley beneath them and it looked like a column of men moving toward their hillAt least once or twice every night, a man on guard would awaken the entire squad and they would sit in their holes for almost an hour searching the field beneath them in the silver uncertain moonlight
Occasionally, they would hear the crackling of some rifles in the distance sounding like a bonfire of dry twigs on an autumn day, and often a shell or two would arch lazily overhead, sighing and murmuring before it crashed into the jungle beyond their linesAt night the machine guns would be hollow and deep, and would hold the mournful boding note of primitive drumsAlmost always, they could hear some noise like a grenade or a mortar or the insistent shrill tatting of a sub-machine gun, but the sounds were so far away and so muffled that in time they disregarded themThe week went by in an uncomfortable suspended tension which they felt only in their unvoiced fear of the towering mute walls of Watamai Range on their righ