Southern Rose [Gone with the Wind]

The child grows up really fast. When it was first born, it was a little wrinkled and not cute at all.She doesn't remember the situation of giving birth to Victor, and she neither looks forward to nor dislikes the birth of this child too much, just... let's finish the task.

She knows where her problem is, she doesn't belong to this "world", so she doesn't care about everything in this world, and she doesn't want to have a deeper emotional bond with anyone, even her "child".She always feels that this world is not real, and her "husband" is not real, so she doesn't feel sad when they die; "children" are not real, so she doesn't care much about them except to give them the living conditions they should have. .

It seems to be very cold-blooded.

But it seems that there is no better way, she can't "integrate" into this world.

It took two months for Rhett's letter to arrive. He sent a rogue to deliver the letter to New York. Of course, it would not be delivered directly to Josephine, but to Percy at the New York dock warehouse. Percy gave the rogue 100 The dollar sent him away, and then immediately returned to Boston to deliver the letter to the hostess.

The content of the letter is as follows:

"Dear Josephine: Allow me to call you so beautifully.

Atlanta sucks!Tara sucks too!I don't need me to tell you how war can destroy a city, you just need to know that everything here is gone, doesn't exist anymore.

Tara was terrible and I regret to inform you that Mrs. O'Hara was ill and passed away just last week. "

Josephine was startled, and hastily re-read the title: Rhett Butler, at Tara, June 1864, 6.

It has been more than a month, so Aunt Ellen passed away as soon as Rhett arrived in Tara.

Sure enough, she can't change the plot?She became annoyed, thinking that maybe she didn't ask Rhett to take Ellen away earlier because she didn't cherish the lives of people in this world very much.In the original book, Ellen died of some infectious disease in order to take care of a poor white woman. Scarlett returned to Tara only after Ellen died.

Scarlett, a selfish girl, loves her mother the most.

She thought for a while in a trance before continuing to read the letter.

"Mr. O'Hara was completely broken, Miss Suellen and Miss Carreen were ill, and the family was supported by Mammy. I managed to find a doctor, treated the two ladies, and took all the money I brought. Food was left for them. The ladies were so hungry that they were sick for a long time, so I couldn't take them, they were too weak to go to Savannah and it would kill them.

Scarlett's situation is not very good, Mrs. Wilkes is pregnant and is about to give birth, and Miss Pitty panicked all day long, but Scarlett asked Scarlett to take care of the two of them.I didn't tell Mrs. Scarlett O'Hara what I was afraid she would break down like Mr. O'Hara. "

In fact, think about it, in the original book, Red, who is so powerful and seems to know everything, doesn't know that Ellen has died of illness?Not too possible.But he really couldn't tell Scarlett about this in advance. Scarlett was trying so hard to go home to see her mother to overcome all difficulties and return to Tara.

Rhett didn't mention whether he had left some money for Tara. Thinking about how Scarlett would lure Rhett for a mere $300 in taxes, he knew how embarrassing Tara's economy was after the war.Scarlett never talked about how rich she was, and she never worried about money.

She was extremely worried, and now she was inexplicably worried about the people in the original book.She immediately reviewed her mentality, maybe she couldn't really ignore her "family".

John and Emile were still in Paris busy with Charles' wedding, and she hesitated, thinking it best to wait until after the wedding to tell them about it.Ellen has passed away, even if John rushes back now, it won't help.

Ellen was a Madonna-like figure who ran Tara according to the things that old Mrs. Robillard taught those housewives should know, but there was a major flaw. When old Mrs. Robillard died, Ellen was aged She was too young to learn how to raise her children, and raised Scarlett—it can’t be said that she was raised crookedly, but Scarlett was definitely not a typical southern lady.

She appreciates Scarlett's tenacious and strong character, which may be like Ellen, or her father Gerald.

well!Poor Gerald!After losing his wife, he seemed to have lost his soul, a walking dead, lifeless.

Then when she read the letter, she was shocked again: Rhett actually said that he was going to join the Confederate Army!

There is indeed such a thing in the original book. Rhett didn't send Scarlett to Tara, leaving Melanie who had just given birth, and Scarlett who was like a crazy woman, and ran away halfway?To say that his behavior was really not very gentlemanly, maybe he didn't dare to tell Scarlett that her mother had passed away?

Or God knows why?

Wait, did Rhett express his love for Scarlett in the original book at this time?

Oh, it's really strange, why does Rhett think that Scarlett will return to Tara safely, and won't be caught and killed by deserters halfway?

She never figured it out.

There are two pages of Rhett's letter, the first page and the second page are obviously not written on the same day, the first page is creased and a little worn, presumably it has been in the wallet for a while, and now it is 7 It was the end of the month, and he was probably looking for someone to bring the letter.

The Civil War is about to end. Even if she doesn’t know when the Civil War ended, but now that the Northern Army has reached Atlanta, the Confederacy is doomed. Now it’s just a desperate fight, and it won’t be long before she surrenders. to Atlanta.

Rhett's letter ended by saying that he now regretted not telling her when he left Boston that he missed her, and that if he hadn't died in battle, he hoped he'd ask her to dance with her one day.

Josephine thought for a while. According to the practice in the south, this is almost equal to courtship, right?She had thought he could be bolder.

It's boring.

She automatically ignored the two paragraphs at the end of the letter.

She originally wanted to go to Paris to attend Charles's wedding, but the old Mrs. Tarent came to her and cried, saying that firstly she was not in good health and suffered from seasickness, and secondly, she would go to Europe every few years in case something happened. What should I do?Philip was dead at sea, and if she really wanted to go, Cynthia must stay.

Josephine was so angry that she rolled her eyes in her heart, but after thinking about it after getting angry, it was quite normal. Cynthia was the blood of the Tarent family, and she was just an unlucky widow.

She wasn't worried that Cynthia would be taught badly by her grandmother, and she would not know her mother after a year, but she felt that according to the current frequency of shipwrecks, the danger is indeed quite high. To reduce the probability of dying at sea is of course to reduce transoceanic travel times.

Wrote a letter to France saying she wouldn't pass, the Northern Army was advancing into Georgia, thinking the Civil War was coming to an end and they could return to Savannah then.

Charles felt a little regretful. He hoped that his sister could come to his wedding, but it was true that she was too seasick. For the sake of her health, she didn't have to come. They are always the closest siblings, and there will be no barriers because of a wedding.

Another note was secretly clipped, saying that Wolfe had run away from home. The Duke came to find him and asked arrogantly if the Robillard family had hidden Wolfe. John was so angry that he quarreled with the Duke.

Charles was vague, but judging by the degree of John's irritation, the Duke probably said something very bad about her.

This is the virtue of the great aristocrats. They don't see civilians who are not nobles at all, unless you are as rich as an enemy.

There is only one widowed mother in the Tarent family, and she cannot be the master of her son, so she is willing to marry Philip and will not consider Wolfe.Think about it, how suffocating it would be to have such a father-in-law who is rich and powerful and loves to control his son!

20 gulden is a fortune, but it is not a particularly large fortune, and it did not allow her to immediately jump to the status of a female "rich man", or to be invincible.

She is a low-key widow, she does not leave her name behind when she does good deeds, and every time Victor and old Mrs. Tarent visit charity places like orphanages, she will donate a sum of money in Victor's name, Victor I also understand that this donation will allow those poor children to eat more food and not be hungry.