Butler be
sidetracked"Never mind that, tell me... Butler be
sidetracked"Never mind that, tell me more about GrandfatherI asked you about her once, but you just brushed
it
off Eleanor shook her head"I don't know how to describe your
grandmotherShe wasn't like anybody else in the world
"Was she very beautiful?"
"Yes-and noThat's the problem with talking about her, she was
always
changingThey have a saying, the French,
that
no woman can be truly beautiful who is not also sometimes truly ugly
They're such a subtle people, and so wise, and so impossible for an
Anglo-Saxon to understand Scarlett couldn't understand what Miss
Eleanor was trying to say"There's a portrait of her at Tara
fake vintage chanel wallet and she
looks beautiful," she said stubbornly"Yes, she would, for her
portraitShe could be beautiful or not, as she choseShe chose to
be anything she liked
She had a quality of absolute stillness sometimes, and you'd almost
forget she was thereThen she'd turn her slanted dark eyes on you,
and suddenly you'd find yourself irresistibly drawn to her
Children swarmed to herIt drove
men out of their minds"Your grandfather was every inch the military
man, accustomed to commandBut your grandmother had only to
smile,
and he became her slaveShe was considerably older than he was,
and
it made no differenceShe was a Catholic, and it made no
orange hermes birkin difference;
she insisted on a Catholic household and Catholicism for their
children, and he agreed to everything, although he was rigidly
ProtestantHe would have agreed to let them be Druids, if that was
her desireShe was all the world to him"I remember when she
decided that she must be surrounded by pink light because she was
getting olderHe said that no soldier would live in a room with so
much as a pink shade on a lampIt was too effeminateShe said it
would make her happy, lots of pinkIt ended up that not only the
walls of the rooms inside were painted, but even the house itselfHe
would do anything to make her happy
"It was all
cheap prada wonderfully mad and romanticWhen she
died,
he died too, in a wayHe kept everything in the house exactly the
way
she had left itIt was hard on your mother and her sisters, I
fear
In the portrait Solange Robillard was wearing a dress that clung to her
body so tightly that it suggested that she was wearing nothing under
itThat must be what drove men out of their minds, including her
husband, Scarlett thought"Often you remind me of her," Eleanor
said,
and Scarlett was suddenly interested again"How so, Miss Eleanor?"
"Your eyes are shaped the same, that little upward tilt at the corner
of themAnd you have the same intensity, you fairly
fake chanel bag vibrate with
it
Both of you strike me as in some way more fully alive than most
peopleShe felt very satisfiedEleanor Butler
looked at her fondly"Now I believe I'll have my nap," she saidShe
thought she'd handled that conversation very wellShe'd said nothing
untrue, but she'd managed to avoid saying too muchShe certainly
didn't want her son's wife to know that her grandmother had had
many
lovers and that dozens of duels had been fought over herNo telling
what kind of ideas that might put in Scarlett's head
Eleanor was profoundly disturbed by the obvious trouble between her
son
and his wifeIt was not something she could ask Rhett
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