1 Nobody could, not with a mousy little person like Melanie.
2 Just like Honey Wilkes is going to marry Melanie's brother, Charles.
3 It would never do to appear schoolgirlish beside Melanie's poised self.
4 It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness.
5 No one would suspect that she had ever been downhearted because of Ashley and Melanie.
6 Of course, her brooch could be pinned over the spot, but perhaps Melanie had sharp eyes.
7 And probably he thinks that if he can't have me, he might as well please his family and marry Melanie.
8 Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.
9 Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.
10 They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.
11 The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she'd be sure to remember it.
12 Scarlett shot a look of sharp suspicion at her, but Mammy's broad face carried only a look of innocence and of regret that Scarlett was not the lady Melanie Hamilton was.
13 She wouldn't overlook a man of marriageable age, from ginger-whiskered old Frank Kennedy, who was Suellen's beau, on down to shy, quiet, blushing Charles Hamilton, Melanie's brother.
14 That night at supper, Scarlett went through the motions of presiding over the table in her mother's absence, but her mind was in a ferment over the dreadful news she had heard about Ashley and Melanie.
15 She had hoped against hope that something would keep Melanie Hamilton in Atlanta where she belonged, and the knowledge that even her father approved of her sweet quiet nature, so different from her own, forced her into the open.
16 Filled with new enthusiasm by their success, they lingered on, talking about the barbecue and the ball and Ashley Wilkes and Melanie Hamilton, interrupting each other, making jokes and laughing at them, hinting broadly for invitations to supper.
17 And she'd tell neighbors what a sly boots Scarlett was to sit there and listen to her talk about Melanie when all the time she and Ashley-- She dimpled at her own thoughts and Betty, who had been watching sharply the effect of her mother's words, sank back with a small puzzled frown.
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