Gone with the Wind Page #2
ASHLEY:
We'll keep her here, won't we, Scarlett?
SCARLETT:
Oh, we'll just have to make the biggest fuss over
her, won't we, Ashley? And if there's anybody who
knows how to give a girl a good time, it's Ashley.
Though I expect our good times must seem terribly
silly to you because you're so serious.
MELANIE:
Oh, Scarlett. You have so much life. I've always
admired you so, I wish I could be more like you.
SCARLETT:
You mustn't flatter me, Melanie, and say things you
don't mean.
ASHLEY:
Nobody could accuse Melanie of being insincere. Could
they, my dear?
SCARLETT:
Oh, well then, she's not like you. Is she, Ashley?
Ashley never means a word he says to any girl. Oh,
why Charles Hamilton, you handsome old thing, you.
CHARLES HAMILTON
But, oh. Miss O'Hara...
SCARLETT:
Do you think that was kind to bring your good-looking
brother down here just to break my poor, simple
country-girl's heart?
(India and Sue Ellen are watching Scarlett in
distance)
ELLEN:
Look at Scarlett, she's never even noticed Charles
before, now just because he's your beau, she's after
him like a hornet!
SCARLETT:
Charles Hamilton, I want to eat barbecue with you.
And mind you don't go philandering with any other
girl because I'm mighty jealous.
CHARLES HAMILTON
I won't, Miss O'Hara. I couldn't!
SCARLETT:
I do declare, Frank Kelly, you don't look dashing
with that new set of whiskers.
FRANK:
Oh, thank you, thank you, Miss Scarlett.
SCARLETT:
You know Charles Hamilton and Ray Kelvert asked me to
eat barbecue with them, but I told them I couldn't
because I'd promised you.
INDIA:
You needn't be so amused, look at her. She's after
your beau now.
FRANK:
Oh, that's mighty flattering of you, Miss Scarlett.
I'll see what I can do, Miss Scarlett.
KATHLEEN:
What's your sister so mad about, Scarlett, you
sparking her beau?
SCARLETT:
As if I couldn't get a better beau than that old maid
in britches. Brent and Stew, do talk, you handsome
old thing, you...oh, no, you're not, I don't mean to
say that I'm mad at you.
BRENT:
Why Scarlett honey...
SCARLETT:
You haven't been near me all day and I wore this old
dress just because I thought you liked it. I was
counting on eating barbecue with you two.
BRENT:
Well, you are, Scarlett...
STEW:
Of course you are, honey.
SCARLETT:
Oh, I never can make up my mind which of you two's
handsomer. I was awake all last night trying to
figure it out. Kathleen, who's that?
KATHLEEN:
Who?
SCARLETT:
That man looking at us and smiling. A nasty dog.
KATHLEEN:
My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's
from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation.
SCARLETT:
He looks as if, as if he knows what I looked like
without my shimmy.
KATHLEEN:
How? But my dear, he isn't received. He's had to
spend most of his time up North because his folks in
Charleston won't even speak to him. He was expelled
from West Point, he's so fast. And then there's that
business about that girl he wouldn't marry...
SCARLETT:
Tell, tell...
KATHLEEN:
Well, he took her out in a buggy riding in the late
afternoon without a chaperone and then, and then he
refused to marry her!
SCARLETT:
(whisper)...
KATHLEEN:
No, but she was ruined just the same.
(Ashley and Melanie, on the balcony open to the
garden.)
MELANIE:
Ashley..
ASHLEY:
Happy?
MELANIE:
So happy.
ASHLEY:
You seem to belong here. As if it had all been
imagined for you.
MELANIE:
I like to feel that I belong to the things you love.
ASHLEY:
You love Twelve Oaks as I do.
MELANIE:
Yes, Ashley. I love it as, as more than a house. It's
a whole world that wants only to be graceful and
beautiful.
ASHLEY:
And so unaware that it may not last, forever.
MELANIE:
You're afraid of what may happen when the war conies,
aren't you? Well, we don't have to be afraid. For us.
No war can come into our world Ashley. Whatever
comes, I'll love you, just as I do now. Until I die.
Chapter 2 Scarlett Meeting Butler
(Noon time, the gentlemen are gathering in the
downstairs hall, talking about the war.)
Mr. O'HARA
We've borne enough insults from the "meddling
Yankees. It's time we made them understand we keep
our slaves with or without their approval. Who's to
stop them right from the state of Georgia to secede
from the Union.
MAN:
That's right.
Mr. O'HARA
The South must assert ourselves by force of arms.
After we fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter,
we've got to fight. There's no other way.
MAN1
Fight, that's right, fight!
MAN2
Let the Yankee's be the ones to ask for peace.
Mr. O'HARA
The situation is very simple. The Yankees can't fight
and we can.
CHORUS:
You're right!
MANS:
That's what I'll think! They'll just turn and run
every time.
MAN1
One Southerner can lick twenty Yankees.
MAN2
We'll finish them in one battle. Gentlemen can always
fight better than rattle.
MANS:
Yes, gentlemen always fight better than rattle.
Mr. O'HARA
And what does the captain of our troop say?
ASHLEY:
Well, gentlemen...if Georgia fights, I go with her.
But like my father I hope that the Yankees let us
leave the Union in peace.
MAN1
But Ashley...
MAN2
Ashley, they've insulted us.
MANS:
You can't mean that you don't want war.
ASHLEY:
Most of the miseries of the world were caused by
wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew
what they were about.
Mr. O'HARA
Now gentlemen, Mr. Butler has been up North I hear.
Don't you agree with us, Mr. Butler?
RHETT BUTLER:
I think it's hard winning a war with words,
gentlemen.
CHARLES:
What do you mean, sir?
RHETT:
I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in
the whole South.
MAN:
What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman?
RHETT:
I'm afraid it's going to make a great deal of
difference to a great many gentlemen, sir.
CHARLES:
Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can
lick us?
RHETT:
No, I'm not hinting. I'm saying very plainly that the
Yankees are better equipped than we. They've got
factories, shipyards, coal-mines... and a fleet to
bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All
we've got is cotton, and slaves and ...arrogance.
MAN:
That's treacherous!
CHARLES:
I refuse to listen to any renegade talk!
RHETT:
Well, I'm sorry if the truth offends you.
CHARLES:
Apologies aren't enough sir. I hear you were turned
out of West Point Mr. Rhett Butler. And that you
aren't received in an decent family in Charleston.
Not even
your own.
RHETT:
I apologize again for all my shortcomings. Mr.
Wilkes, Perhaps you won't mind if I walk about and
look ver your place. I seem to be spoiling
everybody's brandy and cigars and...dreams of
victory.
(Rhett Butler leaves the hall.)
MAN:
Well, that's just about what you could expect from
somebody like Rhett Butler.
Mr. O'HARA
You did everything but call him out.
CHARLES:
He refused to fight.
ASHLEY:
Not quite that Charles. He just refused to take
advantage of you.
CHARLES:
Take advantage of me?
ASHLEY:
Yes, he's one of the best shots the country, he's
proved a number of times, against steadier hands and
cooler heads than yours.
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