Southerners Can Never Resist A Losing Cause.

Once, When She Was Six Years Old, She Had Fallen From A Tree, Flat On Her Stomach. She Could Still Recall That Sickening Interval Before Breath Came Back Into Her Body. Now, As She Looked At Him, She Felt The Same Way She Had Felt Then, Breathless, Stunned, Nauseated.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything.

I've Always Had A Weakness For Lost Causes Once They're Really Lost.

He Had Never Known Such Gallantry As The Gallantry Of Scarlett O'hara Going Forth To Conquer The World In Her Mother's Velvet Curtains And The Tail Feathers Of A Rooster.

Like Most Girls, Her Imagination Carried Her Just As Far As The Altar And No Further.