Don Quixote De la Mancha

GONE WITH THE WIND Навеяло последними событиями At an the evening of music at Mrs Elsing’s home, Rhett was talking with a group of men when Scarlett heard an angry voice arguing with him, ’Are you saying, sir, that the Case for which our heroes are dying is not sacred?’ ‘ All wars are sacred to those who have to fight them, ‘ replied Rhett, in a bored and lazy voice. If the people who started wars didn’t pretend they were sacred, who would be foolish enough to fight? No, it’s money that wars are really fought about, but few people realize it. Theirs ears are too full of fine words from stay-at-home speakers.’ And before Scarlett could reach him, he was leaving. ‘Let him go’, said Mrs Elsing, holding her arm. ’He is not one of us. He’s a snake-in-the grass who we were foolish enough to invite into our homes!’ Later, Mrs Merriwether rode home in Aunt Pitty’s carriage, and immediately said what she thought. ‘He insulted us all and the Confederacy, too’, she said. Saying that we were fighting for money! Saying that our leaders have lied to us! Pitty, you must never let that man into your house again!’ She turned to Scarlett and Melanie. ‘And I don’t want to hear you two girls speaking to him again-Melanie, what’s the matter?’ Melanie was white and her eyes were wide open, ‘I will not be rude to him.   I will not tell him to stay away from the house’. Mrs Merriwether’s mouth fell open, and Aunt Pitty’s did the same. Uncle Peter turned to stare. ‘ Now why didn’t I say that? Thought Scarlett. ‘ I won’t be rude to him because of what he said, because it’s –it’s what Ashley thinks.’ Melanie Hamilton, that’s a lie!’ said Mrs Merriwether, ‘There was never a Wilkes who was a coward-‘ ‘ I never said Asley was coward’, said Melanie. I said he thinks what Captain Buttler thinks, and he does. But he says it differently. In his letters, Ashley says we should not be fighting the Yankees. He says war isn’t wonderful or sacred or any of those things, it’s just dirty and useless and terrible waste of men’s lives.’