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Tara
cried
out
for
a
mistress
.
The
fat
cook
,
a
yard
negro
elevated
by
necessity
to
the
kitchen
,
never
had
the
meals
on
time
,
and
the
chambermaid
,
formerly
a
field
hand
,
let
dust
accumulate
on
the
furniture
and
never
seemed
to
have
clean
linen
on
hand
,
so
that
the
arrival
of
guests
was
always
the
occasion
of
much
stirring
and
to-do
.
Pork
,
the
only
trained
house
negro
on
the
place
,
had
general
supervision
over
the
other
servants
,
but
even
he
had
grown
slack
and
careless
after
several
years
of
exposure
to
Gerald
's
happy-go-lucky
mode
of
living
.
As
valet
,
he
kept
Gerald
's
bedroom
in
order
,
and
,
as
butler
,
he
served
the
meals
with
dignity
and
style
,
but
otherwise
he
pretty
well
let
matters
follow
their
own
course
.
With
unerring
African
instinct
,
the
negroes
had
all
discovered
that
Gerald
had
a
loud
bark
and
no
bite
at
all
,
and
they
took
shameless
advantage
of
him
.
The
air
was
always
thick
with
threats
of
selling
slaves
south
and
of
direful
whippings
,
but
there
never
had
been
a
slave
sold
from
Tara
and
only
one
whipping
,
and
that
administered
for
not
grooming
down
Gerald
's
pet
horse
after
a
long
day
's
hunting
.
Gerald
's
sharp
blue
eyes
noticed
how
efficiently
his
neighbors
'
houses
were
run
and
with
what
ease
the
smooth-haired
wives
in
rustling
skirts
managed
their
servants
.
He
had
no
knowledge
of
the
dawn-till-midnight
activities
of
these
women
,
chained
to
supervision
of
cooking
,
nursing
,
sewing
and
laundering
.
He
only
saw
the
outward
results
,
and
those
results
impressed
him
.
The
urgent
need
of
a
wife
became
clear
to
him
one
morning
when
he
was
dressing
to
ride
to
town
for
Court
Day
.
Pork
brought
forth
his
favorite
ruffled
shirt
,
so
inexpertly
mended
by
the
chambermaid
as
to
be
unwearable
by
anyone
except
his
valet
.
"
Mist
'
Gerald
,
"
said
Pork
,
gratefully
rolling
up
the
shirt
as
Gerald
fumed
,
"
whut
you
needs
is
a
wife
,
and
a
wife
whut
has
got
plen
'
y
of
house
niggers
.
"
Gerald
upbraided
Pork
for
his
impertinence
,
but
he
knew
that
he
was
right
.
He
wanted
a
wife
and
he
wanted
children
and
,
if
he
did
not
acquire
them
soon
,
it
would
be
too
late
.
But
he
was
not
going
to
marry
just
anyone
,
as
Mr.
Calvert
had
done
,
taking
to
wife
the
Yankee
governess
of
his
motherless
children
.
His
wife
must
be
a
lady
and
a
lady
of
blood
,
with
as
many
airs
and
graces
as
Mrs.
Wilkes
and
the
ability
to
manage
Tara
as
well
as
Mrs.
Wilkes
ordered
her
own
domain
.
But
there
were
two
difficulties
in
the
way
of
marriage
into
the
County
families
.
The
first
was
the
scarcity
of
girls
of
marriageable
age
.
The
second
,
and
more
serious
one
,
was
that
Gerald
was
a
"
new
man
,
"
despite
his
nearly
ten
years
'
residence
,
and
a
foreigner
.
No
one
knew
anything
about
his
family
.
While
the
society
of
up-country
Georgia
was
not
so
impregnable
as
that
of
the
Coast
aristocrats
,
no
family
wanted
a
daughter
to
wed
a
man
about
whose
grandfather
nothing
was
known
.
Gerald
knew
that
despite
the
genuine
liking
of
the
County
men
with
whom
he
hunted
,
drank
and
talked
politics
there
was
hardly
one
whose
daughter
he
could
marry
.
And
he
did
not
intend
to
have
it
gossiped
about
over
supper
tables
that
this
,
that
or
the
other
father
had
regretfully
refused
to
let
Gerald
O'Hara
pay
court
to
his
daughter
.
This
knowledge
did
not
make
Gerald
feel
inferior
to
his
neighbors
.
Nothing
could
ever
make
Gerald
feel
that
he
was
inferior
in
any
way
to
anyone
.
It
was
merely
a
quaint
custom
of
the
County
that
daughters
only
married
into
families
who
had
lived
in
the
South
much
longer
than
twenty-two
years
,
had
owned
land
and
slaves
and
been
addicted
only
to
the
fashionable
vices
during
that
time
.
"
Pack
up
.
We
're
going
to
Savannah
,
"
he
told
Pork
.
"
And
if
I
hear
you
say
'
Whist
!
'
or
'
Faith
!
'
but
once
,
it
's
selling
you
I
'll
be
doing
,
for
they
are
words
I
seldom
say
meself
.
"
James
and
Andrew
might
have
some
advice
to
offer
on
this
subject
of
marriage
,
and
there
might
be
daughters
among
their
old
friends
who
would
both
meet
his
requirements
and
find
him
acceptable
as
a
husband
.
James
and
Andrew
listened
to
his
story
patiently
but
they
gave
him
little
encouragement
.
They
had
no
Savannah
relatives
to
whom
they
might
look
for
assistance
,
for
they
had
been
married
when
they
came
to
America
.
And
the
daughters
of
their
old
friends
had
long
since
married
and
were
raising
small
children
of
their
own
.
