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...refused. Then Scarlett found that her shameless offer and his humiliating refusal had been overheard by a wicked man who despised Southern chivalry. Until this point, after more than a hundred of its many pages, Gone With the Wind is pretty hard going. But in Rhett Butler, Author Mitchell creates a character to match Scarlett, gives her a real enemy to fight. Rhett was as eager for change as Scarlett. He had got a bad reputation for his common-sense bluntness about Southern conventions. He said the Yanks would win the War because they had all the factories and because...
...work that Negroes had formerly done for her. She killed a Yankee, worked like a slave keeping the family alive. After the War, Ashley came back, had to refuse Scarlett again despite his growing love and admiration for her. Scarlett dashed off to Atlanta to sell herself to rich Rhett Butler for money enough to save the plantation from the carpetbaggers. He turned her down. She married a soft-headed Southern gentleman, although he was engaged to her sister, because she wanted his money. Soon she was running a store, making more money with a sawmill run with convict labor...
...husband got mixed up with the Klan and was killed. Rhett Butler saved the other members, including the courtly Ashley, from hanging. Thereupon Scarlett married Rhett to share his fortune and to learn the secrets of his ruthlessness and success. But Rhett had made the full circle, come to despise money-grubbing even more than he had hated the exaggerated chivalry of the Old South. He put all his hopes in their daughter, was heartbroken at her death, developed a queer, tormented love and hatred for Scarlett. When Scarlett could finally get Ashley she found she did not want...
...years when the men have taken to the field, or toward the middle of the season, when there has been a reversal of form or when the team has been hopelessly crippled as last year by some eligibility ruling such as the now famous Quogue incident which barred Legore, Rhett, Captain Milburn and Pumpelly from the game. This season, however, the prospects appear to be of a more substantial character, and it is the general opinion among college baseball experts that the building up process already begun by Captain Legore will result in the best team Yale...
...year in the Quogue incident, three are now in college and are therefore eligible for this year's team. Legore, who has the reputation of being one of the best shortstops that Yale has ever had, will be the mainstay of the nine, and Pumpelly in the box, like Rhett in the outfield, will strengthen the team materially...