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     一个平凡女性的不平凡的人生历程；

So, Ellen, no longer Robillard, turned her back onSavannah, never to see it again, and with a middle-agedhusband, Mammy, and twenty “house niggers” journeyedtoward Tara.
The next year, their first child was born and they namedher Katie Scarlett. after Gerald‘s mother. Gerald wasdisappointed, for he had wanted a son, but he neverthelesswas pleased enough over his small black-haired daughter toserve rum to every slave at Tara and to get roaringly, happilydrunk himself.
If Ellen had ever regretted her sudden decision to marryhim, no one ever knew it, certainly not Gerald, who almostburst with pride whenever he looked at her. She had putSavannah and its memories behind her when she left thatgently mannered city by the sea, and, from the moment ofher arrival in the County, north Georgia was her home.
When she departed from her father’s house forever, shehad left a home whose lines were as beautiful and flowingas a woman‘s body, as a ship in full sail; a pale pink stuccohouse built in the French colonial style, set high from theground in a dainty manner, approached by swirling stairs,banistered with wrought iron as delicate as lace; a dim, richhouse, gracious but aloof.
She had left not only that graceful dwelling but also theentire civilization that was behind the building of it, and shefound herself in a world that was as strange and different asif she had crossed a continent.
Here in north Georgia was a rugged section held by ahardy people. High up on the plateau at the foot of the BlueRidge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever shelooked. with huge outcroppings of the underlying graniteand gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
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