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"
But
I
will
come
back
,
"
he
said
and
went
out
,
leaving
her
on
the
bottom
step
looking
at
the
closed
door
.
The
ring
Rhett
brought
back
from
England
was
large
indeed
,
so
large
it
embarrassed
Scarlett
to
wear
it
.
She
loved
gaudy
and
expensive
jewelry
but
she
had
an
uneasy
feeling
that
everyone
was
saying
,
with
perfect
truth
,
that
this
ring
was
vulgar
.
The
central
stone
was
a
four-carat
diamond
and
,
surrounding
it
,
were
a
number
of
emeralds
.
It
reached
to
the
knuckle
of
her
finger
and
gave
her
hand
the
appearance
of
being
weighted
down
.
Scarlett
had
a
suspicion
that
Rhett
had
gone
to
great
pains
to
have
the
ring
made
up
and
,
for
pure
meanness
,
had
ordered
it
made
as
ostentatious
as
possible
.
Until
Rhett
was
back
in
Atlanta
and
the
ring
on
her
finger
she
told
no
one
,
not
even
her
family
,
of
her
intentions
,
and
when
she
did
announce
her
engagement
a
storm
of
bitter
gossip
broke
out
.
Since
the
Klan
affair
Rhett
and
Scarlett
had
been
,
with
the
exception
of
the
Yankees
and
Carpetbaggers
,
the
town
's
most
unpopular
citizens
.
Everyone
had
disapproved
of
Scarlett
since
the
far-away
day
when
she
abandoned
the
weeds
worn
for
Charlie
Hamilton
.
Their
disapproval
had
grown
stronger
because
of
her
unwomanly
conduct
in
the
matter
of
the
mills
,
her
immodesty
in
showing
herself
when
she
was
pregnant
and
so
many
other
things
.
But
when
she
brought
about
the
death
of
Frank
and
Tommy
and
jeopardized
the
lives
of
a
dozen
other
men
,
their
dislike
flamed
into
public
condemnation
.
As
for
Rhett
,
he
had
enjoyed
the
town
's
hatred
since
his
speculations
during
the
war
and
he
had
not
further
endeared
himself
to
his
fellow
citizens
by
his
alliances
with
the
Republicans
since
then
.
But
,
oddly
enough
,
the
fact
that
he
had
saved
the
lives
of
some
of
Atlanta
's
most
prominent
men
was
what
aroused
the
hottest
hate
of
Atlanta
's
ladies
.
It
was
not
that
they
regretted
their
men
were
still
alive
.
It
was
that
they
bitterly
resented
owing
the
men
's
lives
to
such
a
man
as
Rhett
and
to
such
an
embarrassing
trick
.
For
months
they
had
writhed
under
Yankee
laughter
and
scorn
,
and
the
ladies
felt
and
said
that
if
Rhett
really
had
the
good
of
the
Klan
at
heart
he
would
have
managed
the
affair
in
a
more
seemly
fashion
.
They
said
he
had
deliberately
dragged
in
Belle
Watling
to
put
the
nice
people
of
the
town
in
a
disgraceful
position
.
And
so
he
deserved
neither
thanks
for
rescuing
the
men
nor
forgiveness
for
his
past
sins
.
These
women
,
so
swift
to
kindness
,
so
tender
to
the
sorrowing
,
so
untiring
in
times
of
stress
,
could
be
as
implacable
as
furies
to
any
renegade
who
broke
one
small
law
of
their
unwritten
code
.
This
code
was
simple
.
Reverence
for
the
Confederacy
,
honor
to
the
veterans
,
loyalty
to
old
forms
,
pride
in
poverty
,
open
hands
to
friends
and
undying
hatred
to
Yankees
.
Between
them
,
Scarlett
and
Rhett
had
outraged
every
tenet
of
this
code
.
The
men
whose
lives
Rhett
had
saved
attempted
,
out
of
decency
and
a
sense
of
gratitude
,
to
keep
their
women
silent
but
they
had
little
success
.
Before
the
announcement
of
their
coming
marriage
,
the
two
had
been
unpopular
enough
but
people
could
still
be
polite
to
them
in
a
formal
way
.
Now
even
that
cold
courtesy
was
no
longer
possible
.
The
news
of
their
engagement
came
like
an
explosion
,
unexpected
and
shattering
,
rocking
the
town
,
and
even
the
mildest-mannered
women
spoke
their
minds
heatedly
.
Marrying
barely
a
year
after
Frank
's
death
and
she
had
killed
him
!
And
marrying
that
Butler
man
who
owned
a
brothel
and
who
was
in
with
the
Yankees
and
Carpetbaggers
in
all
kinds
of
thieving
schemes
!
Separately
the
two
of
them
could
be
endured
,
but
the
brazen
combination
of
Scarlett
and
Rhett
was
too
much
to
be
borne
.
Common
and
vile
,
both
of
them
!
They
ought
to
be
run
out
of
town
!
