After the American Civil War ended, Scarlett needed $300 to pay her taxes, but she did not have that much money on hand. Later, she heard that Rhett Butler had returned.
When they reunited in prison, Rhett Butler said to Scarlett, "Thank God you're not dressed in rags. I've had enough of women in rags."
Pomona looked away from Gone with the Wind and gazed out at St. Mark's Square. Nakamura Xue was taking an afternoon nap on a luxurious pink princess bed.
In the end, she still could not bring herself to take a drunk around a museum.
"Someone told me Melanie was so tolerant because that was how she survived. Do you think he was right, Cockroach Cluster?" she asked the Occamy. It lay coiled listlessly, as if it was not listening to her at all.
Many people treated their pets like humans. Perhaps that was why Severus had handed Cockroach Cluster over to Draco to raise.
Especially women who had lost a child and suffered postpartum depression. She was truly lucky not to have developed it.
No wonder she had kept crying in that dream.
"When I was little, I lived at my grandmother's house," Nakamura Xue said from the bed. "My family had practiced medicine for generations since the Edo period. There was a shrine on the mountain behind our ancestral home, and sometimes I went there to play."
"By yourself?"
"With the other children nearby. One day, we were playing kick the can on the mountain. While I was hiding, I met a strange person—more precisely, a monk. He said, 'Hah! Children must not come out to play after sunset,' and gave me a thorough scolding. Then he took me to the entrance of the shrine. When I got home, I told my grandfather, and