chapter 1 scarlett's jealousy

(tara is the beautiful homeland of scarlett, who is now talking with the wins, brent and stew, at the door step.)
brent: what do we care if we were expelled from college, scarlett the war is going to start anyday now so we would have left college anyhow.

stew: oh, isn't it exciting, scarlett? you know those poor yankees actually want a war?

brent: we'll show 'em.

scarlett: fiddle-dee-dee. war, war, war. this war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. i get so bored i could scream. besides, there isn't going to be any war.

brent: not going to be any war?

stew: ah, buddy, of course there's going to be a war.

scarlett: if either of you boys says "war" just once again, i'll go in the house and slam the door.

brent: but scarlett honey..

stew: don't you want us to have a war?

brent: wait a minute, scarlett...

stew: we'll talk about this...

brent: no please, we'll do anything you say...

scarlett: well-but remember i warned you.

brent: i've got an idea. we'll talk about the barbecue the wilkes are giving over at twelve oaks tomorrow.

stew: that's a good idea. you're eating barbecue with us, aren't you, scarlett?

scarlett: well, i hadn't thought about that yet, i'll...i'll think about that tomorrow.

stew: and we want all your waltzes, there's first brent, then me, then brent, then me again, then saul. promise?

scarlettt:i'just love to.

stew: yahoo!

scarlett: if only ..if only i didn't have every one of them taken already.

brent: honey, you can't do that to us.

stew: how about if we tell you a secret?

scarlett: secret? who by?

brent: well, you know miss melanie hamilton, from atlanta?

stew: ashley wilkes' cousin? well she's visiting the wilkes at twelve oaks.

scarlett: melanie hamilton, that goody-goody. who wants no secret about
her.

brent: well, anyway we heard...

stew:that is, they say..

brent: ashley wilkes is going to marry her.

stew: you know the wilkes always marry their cousins.

brent: now do we get those waltzes?

scarlett: of course.

brent: yahoo!

scarlett: it can't be true...ashley loves me.

stew: scarlett!
(scarlett couldn't accept the fact ofashley's marriage, she rushes to find her father. mr.o'hara is just back from a ride.)16

mr. o'hara: (to his horse) there's none in the county can touch you, and none in the state.

scarlett: paw? how proud of yourself you are!

mr. o'hara: well, it is scarlett o'hara. so, you've been spying on me. and like your sister sue ellen, you'll be telling your mother on me, that i was jumping again.

scarlett: oh, paw, you know i'm no 'tattle like sue ellen. but it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping that same fence......

mr. o'hara: i'll not have me own daughter telling me what i shall jump and not jump. it's my own neck, so it is.

scarlett: all right paw, you jump what you please. how are they all over at twelve oaks?

mr. o'hara: the wilkes? oh, what you expect, with the barbecue tomorrow and talking, nothing but war...

scarlett: oh bother the war....was there, was there anyone else there?

mr. o'hara: oh, their cousin melanie hamilton from atlanta. and her brother
charles.