MELANIE in Classic Quotes

1  Nobody could, not with a mousy little person like Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  Just like Honey Wilkes is going to marry Melanie's brother, Charles.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  It would never do to appear schoolgirlish beside Melanie's poised self.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  It would never do to appear sedate and elderly before Melanie's sweet youthfulness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  No one would suspect that she had ever been downhearted because of Ashley and Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  Of course, her brooch could be pinned over the spot, but perhaps Melanie had sharp eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  And probably he thinks that if he can't have me, he might as well please his family and marry Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Perhaps this and her healthy enjoyment of walking and riding had turned him from her to the frail Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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