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Couldn’t you see that the ears were false? One of them had fallen
off Maureen intervened before the argument could get out of hand
“It was a grand parade, every bit of itCome along, girls, and hold
on to Jacky’s hand Strangers the day before, strangers again the
day
after, on Saint Patrick’s Day people joined hands and danced, joined
voices and sangThey shared the sun and the air and the music and
the
streets”It’s wonderful,” Scarlett said when she tasted a chicken
drumstick from one of the food stallsAnd, “It’s wonderful,” she said
when she saw the green chalk shamrocks on the brick paths of
Chatham
Square
“It’s wonderful,” about the mighty granite eagle with a green ribbon
around its neck on the Pulaski Monument”What a wonderful,
wonderful,
wonderful day,” she cried, and she spun around and around before she
sank exhausted onto a newly vacated bench next to Colum”Look,
Colum,
I’ve got a hole in the bottom of my boot
Where I come from everybody says you can tell the best parties
because
they’re the ones where you dance your slippers right throughAnd
these aren’t even slippers, they’re bootsThis must be the best party
ever!”
“It’s a grand day, to be sure, and there’s the evening still to come,
with the Roman candles and allYou’ll be worn through just like your
boot, Scarlett darling, if you don’t take a little restIt’s near
four o’clockLet’s go to the house now for a bitI want to dance some more and eat some more pork
barbecue and have one of those green ices and taste that awful green
beer Matt and Jamie were drinking
“And so you shall tonightYou observe, do you not, that Matt and
Jamie gave up an hour ago or more?”
“Sissies!” Scarlett proclaimedYou’re the best of
the O’Haras, ColumJamie said so, and he was right Colum smiled
at
her flushed cheeks and sparkling eyes
“Saving only yourself,” he said”Scarlett, I’m going to take off your
boot now, hold it up, the one with the hole in i