CARNIVAL TO CONCLUDE WITH MASQUERADE BALLThat...
CARNIVAL TO CONCLUDE WITH MASQUERADE BALLThat must be
what the old
dragon and Maybelle were talking about, she thoughtEveryone in the
world except me is going to wonderful partiesShe snatched the
paper
up again to read the article: It can now be announced, planning and
preparations being complete, that Atlanta will be graced on January
6th
next with a Carnival sure to rival the magnificence of New Orleans'
famous Mardi GrasThe Twelfth Night Revelers is a body lately
formed
by our city's leading figures from the worlds of society and business,
and the instigators of this fabulous eventThe King of Carnival will
reign over Atlanta, attended by a Court of Noblemen
He will enter the city and transverse it on a royal float in a parade
that is expected to exceed a mile in lengthAll the city's citizens,
his subjects for the day, are chanel clearance invited to view the parade and marvel at
its wondersSchedule and parade route will be announced in a later
edition of this newspaperThe day-long revels will conclude at a
Masked Ball for which DeGives Opera House will be transformed into a
veritable WonderlandThe Revelers have distributed almost three
hundred invitations to Atlanta's finest Knights and fairest Ladies"Damn!" said ScarlettThen desolation took hold of her, and she
began to cry like a childIt wasn't fair for Rhett to be dancing and
laughing in Charleston and all her enemies in Atlanta to be having a
good time while she was stuck by herself in her huge silent house
She'd never done anything bad enough to deserve such punishment
You've never been so lily-livered that you let them make you cry,
either, she told herself angrilyScarlett rubbed the tears away with
the backs of tiffany jewelry canada her wristsShe wasn't going to wallow in miseryShe
was going to go after what she wantedShe'd go to the Ball;
somehow
she'd find a wayIt was not impossible to get an invitation to the
Ball, it wasn't even difficultScarlett learned that the vaunted
parade would be made up largely of decorated wagons advertising
products and storesThere was a fee for participants, of course, as
well as the cost of decorating the "float," but all those businesses in
the parade received two invitations to the BallShe sent Willie
Kershaw with the money to enter Kennedy's Emporium in the parade
It reinforced her belief that just about anything could be bought
Money could do anything"How will you decorate the wagon, Mrs
Butler?" asked KershawThe question opened up a hundred
possibilities"I'll think about it, Willie Why, she could spend
hours and hours-fill replicas de bolsas up lots of evenings-thinking about how to make all
the other floats look pitiful next to hersShe had to think about her
costume for the Ball, tooWhat a lot of time it was going to take!
She'd have to go through all her fashion magazines again, have to find
out what people were wearing, have to select fabric, schedule fittings,
choose a hairstyle Oh, no! She was still in ordinary mourning
Surely that didn't mean she had to wear black for a masquerade ball
She'd never been to one, she didn't know what the rules wereBut
the
whole idea was to fool people, wasn't it? Not to look like you usually
did, to be disguisedThen she definitely should not wear blackThe
Ball was sounding better every minuteScarlett hastened through her
routines at the store and hurried to her dressmaker, MrsThe
corpulent, wheezing MrsMarie took a sheaf of pins out fendi spy zucca bag of her mouth
so that she could report that ladies had ordered costumes to represent
Rosebud-pink ballgown trimmed with silk rosesSnowflake-white
ballgown
trimmed with stiffened and sequined white laceNight-deep blue velvet
with embroidered silver stars -Dawn-pink over darker pink skirted
silkShepherdess-striped gown with lace-edged white apron- "All right,
all right," said Scarlett impatiently"I see what they're doing
I'll let you know tomorrow what I will beMarie threw up her
hands"But I won't have time to make your gown, MrsI've
had to find two extra seamstresses as it is, and I still don't see how
I'm going to finish in time There's just no way on earth I can add
another costume to the ones I've already promised Scarlett
dismissed
the woman's refusal with a wave of her handShe knew she could
bully
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