1 But since he had seen her lips in the lamplight he felt that they were his.
2 That supposition was even more disturbing than the other; and it was the one which had come to him the night before, when he had seen her standing in the kitchen door.
3 Silence answered; but in a minute or two he caught a sound on the stairs and saw a line of light about the door-frame, as he had seen it the night before.
4 Ethan had seen the couple the summer before at Shadd's Falls, where they had come to visit relatives.
5 The sight of Mattie going about her work as he had seen her on so many mornings made it seem impossible that she should ever cease to be a part of the scene.
6 For here were no long, straight furrows, such as could be seen in the yellow clay fields of the flat middle Georgia country or in the lush black earth of the coastal plantations.
7 After all, it's our first day home and she hasn't seen us in quite a spell.
8 And Ashley couldn't have seen her in months.
9 In childhood days, she had seen him come and go and never given him a thought.
10 Their beauty she accepted as casually as the air she breathed and the water she drank, for she had never consciously seen beauty in anything but women's faces, horses, silk dresses and like tangible things.
11 Scarlett had never seen her mother's back touch the back of any chair on which she sat.
12 Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.
13 She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.
14 The old oaks, which had seen Indians pass under their limbs, hugged the house closely with their great trunks and towered their branches over the roof in dense shade.
15 Scarlett suspected Jonas Wilkerson, for she had frequently seen him walking down the road with Emmie at nightfall.