René roared at this, his small monkey eyes dancing with glee as he whacked Tommy on his twisted back.
"Don't be impudent," said Scarlett coldly, for she saw little humor in Tommy's remark.
"Of course, I wasn't raised to run a sawmill."
"I didn't mean to be impudent. But you are running a sawmill, whether you were raised to it or not. And running it very well, too. Well, none of us, as far as I can see, are doing what we intended to do right now, but I think well make out just the same. It's a poor person and a poor nation that sits down and cries because life isn't precisely what they expected it to be. Why don't you pick up some enterprising Carpetbagger to work for you, Scarlett? The woods are full of them, God knows."
"I don't want a Carpetbagger. Carpetbaggers will steal anything t
