| Hodgson Hall had a handsome, serious interior,... 375 |
[Feb. 4th, 2010|02:59 am] |
Hodgson Hall had a handsome, serious interior, appropriate to its
scholarly purposeRich, polished wood panelling covered the walls
and
framed the Historical Society's collection of old maps and sketches
Huge brass chandeliers fitted with white glass-globed gaslights hung
from the tall ceilingThey cast an unkind, bright, bleaching light on
the pale, lined aristocratic faces below themScarlett sought
instinctively for some shadowShe felt
panicky, as if somehow she was aging rapidly, as if old age were a
contagionHer thirtieth birthday had come and gone unnoticed while
she was in Charleston, but now she was acutely aware of it
Everyone knew that once a woman was thirty, she just as well be
dead
Thirty was so |
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