She got to her feet and went into the kitchenShe...
She
got to her feet and went into the kitchenShe looked with disbelief
at the mass of men and women that filled the roomThey were eating
and drinking and talking as if nothing unusual was happening at all
The air was thick with smoke from the men's clay pipes in spite of the
open door and windowsScarlett approached the group around Father
Danaher"Yes, he woke to call people by name and to make his end
with
a clean soulAh, it was a grand confession he made, I've never heard
a betterA fine man Daniel O'Hara wasWe'll not see his like again
in our lifetimes"And do you not remember, Jim,
the
time Daniel and his brother Patrick, God rest his soul, took the
Englishman's prize pig and carried it down into the peat old omega watches bog to
farrow?
Twelve little ones and all of them squealing, and the sow as fierce as
any wild boar? The land agent was shaking and the Englishman
cursing
and all the rest of the world laughing at the show Jim O 'Gorman
laughed, swatted the tale teller's shoulder with his big blacksmith's
hand"I do not remember, Ted O'Hara, no more do you, and that's
the
truth of itWe were neither of us born when the adventure of the sow
had its happening, and well you know itYou heard it from your father
same as I heard it from"
"But wouldn't it be a fine thing to have seen,
Jim? Your cousin Daniel was a grand man, and that's the truth of
it
Yes, he was, thought ScarlettShe moved around, listening to a score
of stories of black and white chanel Daniel's life"And tell us, if
you will, Katie Scarlett, about your uncle refusing the farm with the
hundred cattle you gave him"This was the
way
of it," she beganA dozen eager listeners leaned toward herNow
what am I going to say? "I I said to him, 'llncle Daniel' I
said, 'I want to give you a present" Might as well make it good"I
said, 'I've got a farm with a quick stream
and a bog of its own and a hundred bullocks and fifty milk cows and
three hundred geese and twenty-five pigs and "
The audience sighed at the grandeurScarlett felt inspiration on her
tongue"'llncle Daniel,' I said, 'this is all for you, and a bag of
gold besides But his voice thundered at me till I quaked'I'll not
touch it, Katie Scarlett O pink vuitton bag 'Hara" Colum grabbed her arm and pulled
her outside the house, through the crowd, behind the barnThen he
let
himself laugh"You're always surprising me, Scarlett darlingYou've
just made Daniel into a giant-but whether it's a giant fool or a giant
too noble to take advantage of a fool woman, I don't know Scarlett
laughed with him"I was just getting the hang of it, Colum, you
should have let me stay Suddenly she put her hand over her mouth
How could she be laughing at Uncle Daniel's wake? Colum took her
wrist, lowered her hand"It's all right," he said, "a wake's supposed
to celebrate a man's life and the importance of him to all who come
Laughter's part of it, as much as lamentation Daniel O'Hara was
buried on new chanel bags ThursdayThe funeral was almost as big as Old Katie
Scarlett's had beenScarlett led the procession to the grave his sons
had dug in the ancient walled graveyard at Ballyhara that she and
Colum
had found and cleaned upScarlett filled a leather pouch with soil
from Daniel's graveWhen she spread it on her father's grave, it
would be almost as if he was buried near his brother
When the funeral was over, the family went to the Big House for
refreshmentsScarlett's cook was delighted to have an occasion to
show offLong trestle tables stretched the length of the unused
drawing room and libraryThey were covered with hams, geese,
chickens, beef, mountains of breads and cakes, gallons of porter, bar
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