1 There the silence had deepened about him year by year.
2 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.
3 "I've a good mind to go and hunt up those stomach powders I got last year over in Springfield," she continued.
4 He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
5 It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
6 Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
7 He hadn't been in Atlanta more than twice since the house party he gave last year at Twelve Oaks.
8 And after that fall he had right here last year when he broke his knee.
9 That was the year when Gerald O'Hara, twenty-eight years older than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it.
10 He had been one of the winners in the land lottery conducted by the State to divide up the vast area in middle Georgia, ceded by the Indians the year before Gerald came to America.
11 The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.
12 His wife was a snarly-haired woman, sickly and washed-out of appearance, the mother of a brood of sullen and rabbity-looking children-- a brood which was increased regularly every year.
13 The next year, their first child was born and they named her Katie Scarlett, after Gerald's mother.
14 Scarlett thought for an instant that if she had not flirted so blatantly with Stuart at that political speaking a year ago, he might have married India long ere this.
15 Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.