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And I’m going to Mass with my cousins, the O’HarasWho-by the
way-have invited me to come stay with them any time I want, for as
long
as I like Scarlett stood and marched in triumph from the roomShe
was halfway up the stairs before she remembered that she shouldn’t
have
eaten anything before MassShe didn’t have to take
Communion if she didn’t want toAnd she’d certainly showed
GrandfatherWhen she reached her room, she did a few steps of the
reel that she’d learned the night beforeShe didn’t for a minute
believe that the old man would call her bluff about staying with her
cousinsMuch as she loved going to the O’Haras’ for music and
dancing, there were far too many children there to make a visit
possibleBesides, they didn’t have any servantsShe couldn’t get
dressed without Pansy to lace her stays and fix her hairI wonder
what he’s really up to, she thought againShe’d
probably find out soon enoughIt wasn’t really importantBefore he
came out with it, Rhett would probably have come for her anyhow
hour and four minutes after Scarlett went up to her room, Pierre
Auguste Robillard, soldier of Napoleon, left his beautiful shrine of a
house to go to churchHe wore a heavy overcoat and a wool scarf,
and
his thin white hair was covered with a tall hat made of sable that had
once belonged to a Russian officer who died at BorodinoDespite the
bright sun and the promise of spring in the air, the old man’s thin
body was coldStill, he walked stiffly erect, seldom using the
malacca cane he carriedHe nodded in a correct abbreviated bow to
the
people who greeted him on the streetHe was very well known in
SavannahAt the Independent Presbyterian Church on Chippewa
Square he
took his place in the fifth pew from the front, the place that had been
his ever since the gala dedication of the church nearly sixty years
earlierJames Monroe, then president of the United States, had been
at the dedication and had asked to be introduced to the man who had
been with Napoleon from Austerlitz to WaterlooPierre Robillard had
been gracious to the older man, even though a President was nothing
impressive to a man who had fought alongside an EmperorWhen the
service ended, he had a few words with several men who responded to
his
gesture and hurried to join him on the steps of the churc