1 But since he had seen her lips in the lamplight he felt that they were his.
2 Zeena took the view that Mattie was bound to make the best of Starkfield since she hadn't any other place to go to; but this did not strike Ethan as conclusive.
3 There was really, even now, no tangible evidence to the contrary; but since the previous night a vague dread had hung on his sky-line.
4 He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter.
5 And within a year of their marriage she developed the "sickliness" which had since made her notable even in a community rich in pathological instances.
6 Of late, however, since he had reasons for observing her more closely, her silence had begun to trouble him.
7 Ethan's hand dropped from the door-knob, which he had held clenched since he had drawn the door shut on Mattie.
8 It was a long time since any one had spoken to him as kindly as Mrs. Hale.
9 Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
10 They had known her for years, and, since their childhood, she had been a favorite playmate, for she could ride horses and climb trees almost as well as they.
11 The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
12 He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks.
13 But since that day two years ago when Ashley, newly home from his three years' Grand Tour in Europe, had called to pay his respects, she had loved him.
14 And the daughters of their old friends had long since married and were raising small children of their own.
15 As always since childhood, this was, for Scarlett, a moment for adoration of Ellen, rather than the Virgin.