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English乱世佳人 Chapter 1 Scarlet's Jealousy (Tara is the beautiful homeland of Scarlett, who is now talking with the twins, Brent and Stew, at the door step.) BRENT: What do we care if we were expelled from college, Scarlett The war is going to start anyday now so we would have left college anyhow. STEW: Oh, isn't it exciting, Scarlett? You know those poor Yankees actually want a war? BRENT: We'll show 'em. SCARLETT: Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk is spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. BRENT: Not going to be any war? STEW: Ah, buddy, of course there's going to be a war. SCARLETT: If either of you boys says "war" just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door. BRENT: But Scarlett honey.. STEW: Don't you want us to have a war? BRENT: Wait a minute, Scarlett... STEW: We'll talk about this... BRENT: No please, we'll do anything you say... SCARLETT: Well-but remember I warned you. BRENT: I've got an idea. We'll talk about the barbecue the Wilkes are giving over at Twelve Oaks tomorrow. STEW: That's a good idea. You're eating barbecue with us, aren't you, Scarlett? SCARLETT: Well, I hadn't thought about that yet, I'll...I'll think about that tomorrow. STEW: And we want all your waltzes, there's first Brent, then me, then Brent, then me again, then Saul. Promise? SCARLETTT:I'just love to. STEW: Yahoo! SCARLETT: If only ..if only I didn't have every one of them taken already. BRENT: Honey, you can't do that to us. STEW: How about if we tell you a secret? SCARLETT: Secret? Who by? BRENT: Well, you know Miss Melanie Hamilton, from Atlanta? STEW: Ashley Wilkes' cousin? Well she's visiting the Wilkes at Twelve Oaks. SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton, that goody-goody. Who wants no secret about her. BRENT: Well, anyway we heard... STEW:That is, they say.. BRENT: Ashley Wilkes is going to marry her. STEW: You know the Wilkes always marry their cousins. BRENT: Now do we get those waltzes? SCARLETT: Of course. BRENT: Yahoo! SCARLETT: It can't be true...Ashley loves me. STEW: Scarlett! (Scarlett couldn't accept the fact ofAshley's marriage, she rushes to find her father. Mr.O'Hara is just back from a ride.) Mr. O'HARA: (To his horse) There's none in the county can touch you, and none in the state. SCARLETT: Paw? How proud of yourself you are! Mr. O'HARA: Well, it is Scarlett O'Hara. So, you've been spying on me. And like your sister Sue Ellen, you'll be telling your mother on me, that I was jumping again. SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you know I'm no 'tattle like Sue Ellen. But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year jumping that same fence...... Mr. O'HARA: I'll not have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump. It's my own neck, so it is. SCARLETT: All right Paw, you jump what you please. How are they all over at Twelve Oaks? Mr. O'HARA: The Wilkes? Oh, what you expect, with the barbecue tomorrow and talkingSCARLETT: Oh bother the war....was there, was there anyone else there? Mr. O'HARA: Oh, their cousin Melanie Hamilton from Atlanta. And her brother Charles. SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton. She's a pale-faced mealy-mouthed ninny and I hate her. Mr. O'HARA: Ashley Wilkes doesn't think so. SCARLETT: Ashley Wilkes couldn't like anyone like her. Mr. O'HARA: What's your interest in Ashley and Miss Melanie? SCARLETT: It's...it's nothing. Let's go into the house, Paw. Mr. O'HARA: Has he been trifling with you? Has he asked you to marry him? SCARLETT No. Mr. O'HARA: No, nor will he. I have it in strictest confidence from John Wilkes this afternoon, Ashley is going to marry Miss Melanie. It'll be announced tomorrow night at the ball. SCARLETT: I don't believe it! Mr. O'HARA: Here, here what are you after? Scarlett! What are you about? Have you been making a ^spectacle of yourself running about after a man who's not in love with you? When you might have any of the bucks in the county? SCARLETT: I haven't been running after him, it's...it's just a surprise that's all. Mr. O'HARA: Now, don't be jerking your chin at me. If Ashley wanted to marry you, it would be with misgivings, I'd say yes. I want my girl to be happy. You'd not be happy with him. SCARLETT: I would, I would. Mr. O'HARA: What difference does it make whom you marry? So long as he's a Southerner and thinks like you. And when I'm gone, I leave Tara to you. SCARLETT: I don't want Tara, plantations don't mean anything when... Mr. O'Hara: Do you mean to toll me Katie Scarlett O'Hara that Tara, that land doesn't mean anything to you? Why, land is the only thing in the world worth working for. Worth fighting for, worth dying for. Because it's the only thing that lasts. SCARLETT: Oh, Paw, you talk like an Irishman. Mr. O'HARA: It's proud I am that I'm Irish. And don't you be forgetting, Missy, that you're half-Irish too. And to anyone with a drop of Irish blood in them, why the land they live on is like their mother. Oh, but there, there, now, you're just a child. It'll come to you, this love of the land. There's no getting away from it if you're Irish. (Next day, the O'Haras drive to Twelve Oaks for the barbeque there.) Mr. O'HARA:: Well, John Wilkes. It's a grand day you'll be having for the barbecue. JOHN WILKES: So it seems, Gerald. Why isn't Mrs. 0' Hara with you? Mr. O'HARA: She's after settling accounts with the overseer, but she'll be along for the ball tonight. INDIA: Welcome to Twelve Oaks, Mr. O'Hara. Mr.O'HARA: : Thank you kindly, India. Your daughter is getting prettier everyday, John. JOHN WILKES: Oh, India, here are the O'Hara girls, we must greet them. INDIA: Can't stand that Scarlett. If you'd see the way she throws herself at Ashley. JOHN WILKES: Now, now, that's your brother's business. You must remember your duties as hostess. Good morning, girls! You look lovely. Good morning, Scarlett. SCARLETT:take my eyes off it. (Scarlett enters the hall with her family.) MAN1: Good morning, Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: Morning. MAN2: Look mighty fine this morning, Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: Thank you. MANS: Morning Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: Good Morning. MAN4: Pleasure to see you, Miss Scarlett. MANS: Howdy, Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: Ashley! ASHLEY: Scarlett! My dear! SCARLETT: I've been looking for you everywhere. I've got something I must tell you. Can't we go some place where it's quiet? ASHLEY: Yes I'd like to, but... I've something to tell you, too. Something I...I hope you'll be glad to hear. Now come and say hello to my cousin, Melanie Wilkes. SCARLETT: Oh, do we have to? ASHLEY: She's been looking forward to seeing you again. Melanie! Here's Scarlett. MELANIE: Scarlett. I'm so glad to see you again. SCARLETT: Melanie Hamilton, what a surprise to run into you here. I hope you're going to stay with us a few days at least. MELANIE: I hope I shall stay long enough for us to become real friends, Scarlett. I do so want us to be. ASHLEY: We'll keep her here, won't we, Scarlett? SCARLETT: Oh, we'll just have to make the biggest fuss over her, won't we, Ashley? And if there's anybody who knows how to give a girl a good time, it's Ashley. Though I expect our good times must seem terribly silly to you because you're so serious. MELANIE: Oh, Scarlett. You have so much life. I've always admired you so, I wish I could be more like you. SCARLETT: You mustn't flatter me, Melanie, and say things you don't mean. ASHLEY: Nobody could accuse Melanie of being insincere. Could they, my dear? SCARLETT: Oh, well then, she's not like you. Is she, Ashley? Ashley never means a word he says to any girl. Oh, why Charles Hamilton, you handsome old thing, you. CHARLES HAMILTON: But, oh. Miss O'Hara... SCARLETT: Do you think that was kind to bring your good-looking brother down here just to break my poor, simple country-girl's heart? (India and Sue Ellen are watching Scarlett in distance) ELLEN: Look at Scarlett, she's never even noticed Charles before, now just because he's your beau, she's after him like a ^hornet! SCARLETT: Charles Hamilton, I want to eat barbecue with you. And mind you don't go ^philandering with any other girl because I'm mighty jealous. CHARLES HAMILTON: I won't, Miss O'Hara. I couldn't! SCARLETT: I do declare, Frank Kelly, you don't look dashing with that new set of whiskers. FRANK: Oh, thank you, thank you, Miss Scarlett. SCARLETT: You know Charles Hamilton and Ray Kelvert asked me to eat barbecue with them, but I told them I couldn't because I'd promised you. INDIA:You needn't be so amused, look at her. She's after your beau now. Frank: Oh, that's mighty flattering of you, Miss Scarlett. I'll see what I can do, Miss Scarlett. KATHLEEN: What's your sister so mad about, Scarlett, you sparking her beau? SCARLETT: As if I couldn't get a bettebritches. Brent and Stew, do talk, you handsome old thing, you...oh, no, you're not, I don't mean to say that I'm mad at you. BRENT: Why Scarlett honey... SCARLETT: You haven't been near me all day and I wore this old dress just because I thought you liked it. I was counting on eating barbecue with you two. BRENT: Well, you are, Scarlett... STEW: Of course you are, honey. SCARLETT: Oh, I never can make up my mind which of you two's handsomer. I was awake all last night trying to figure it out. Kathleen, who's that? KATHLEEN: Who? SCARLETT: That man looking at us and smiling. A nasty dog. KATHLEEN: My dear, don't you know? That's Rhett Butler. He's from Charleston. He has the most terrible reputation. SCARLETT: He looks as if, as if he knows what I looked like without my shimmy. KATHLEEN: How? But my dear, he isn't received. He's had to spend most of his time up North because his folks in Charleston won't even speak to him. He was expelled from West Point, he's so fast. And then there's that business about that girl he wouldn't marry... SCARLETT:Tell, tell... KATHLEEN: Well, he took her out in a buggy riding in the late afternoon without a chaperone and then, and then he refused to marry her! SCARLETT: (whisper)... KATHLEEN: No, but she was ruined just the same. (Ashley and Melanie, on the balcony open to the garden.) MELANIE: Ashley.. ASHLEY: Happy? MELANIE: So happy ASHLEY: You seem to belong here. As if it had all been imagined for you. MELANIE: I like to feel that I belong to the things you love. ASHLEY: You love Twelve Oaks as I do. MELANIE: Yes, Ashley. I love it as, as more than a house. It's a whole world that wants only to be graceful and beautiful. ASHLEY: And so unaware that it may not last, forever. MELANIE: You're afraid of what may happen when the war conies, aren't you? Well, we don't have to be afraid. For us. No war can come into our world Ashley. Whatever comes, I'll love you, just as I do now. Until I die. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 Scarlett Meeting Butler (Noon time, the gentlemen are gathering in the downstair hall, talking about the war.) Mr. O'HARA: We've borne enough insults from the "meddling Yankees. It's time we made them understand we keep our slaves with or without their approval. Who's to stop them right from the state of Georgia to ^secede from the Union. MAN: That's right. Mr. O'HARA: The South must assert ourselves by force of arms. After we fired on the Yankee rascals at Fort Sumter, we've got to fight. There's no other way. MAN1: Fight, that's right, fight! MAN2: Let the Yankee's be the ones to ask for peace. Mr. O'HARA: The situation is very simple. The Yankees can't fight and we can. CHORUS: You're right! MANS: That's what I'll think! They'll just turn and runevery time. MAN1: One Southerner can lick twenty Yankees. MAN2: We'll finish them in one battlerattle. MANS: Yes, gentlemen always fight better than rattle. Mr. O'HARA: And what does the captain of our troop say? ASHLEY: Well, gentlemen...if Georgia fights, I go with her. But like my father I hope that the Yankees let us leave the Union in peace. MAN1: But Ashley... MAN2: Ashley, they've insulted us. MANS: You can't mean that you don't want war. ASHLEY: Most of the miseries of the world were caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were about. Mr. O'HARA: Now gentlemen, Mr. Butler has been up North I hear. Don't you agree with us, Mr. Butler? RHETT BUTLER : I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. CHARLES: What do you mean, sir? RHETT: I mean, Mr. Hamilton, there's not a cannon factory in the whole South. MAN: What difference does that make, sir, to a gentleman? RHETT: I'm afraid it's going to make a great deal of difference to a great many gentlemen, sir. CHARLES: Are you hinting, Mr. Butler, that the Yankees can lick us? RHETT: No, I'm not hinting. I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. They've got factories, shipyards, coalmines... and a fleet to bottle up our habours and starve us to death. All we've got is cotton, and slaves and ...arrogance. MAN: That's treacherous! CHARLES: I refuse to listen to any renegade talk! RHETT: Well, I'm sorry if the truth offends you. CHARLES: Apologies aren't enough sir. I hear you were turned out of West Point Mr. Rhett Butler. And that you aren't received in an decent family in Charleston. Not even your own. RHETT: I apologize again for all my shortcomings. Mr. Wilkes,Perhaps you won't mind if I walk about and look over your place. I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and...dreams of victory. (Rhett Butler leaves the hall.) MAN: Well, that's just about what you could expect from somebody like Rhett Butler. Mr. O'HARA: You did everything but call him out. CHARLES: He refused to fight. ASHLEY: Not quite that Charles. He just refused to take advantage of you. CHARLES: Take advantage of me? ASHLEY: Yes, he's one of the best shots the country, he's proved a number of times, against steadier hands and cooler heads than yours. CHARLES: Well, I'll show him. ASHLEY: No, no no, please, don't go tweaking his nos anymore. You may be needed for more important fighting, Charles. Now if you'll excuse me, Mr. Butler's our guest... I think I'll just show him around. (Ashley leaves the hall with intention of walking Butler around the house. But before he can do this, Scarlett calls him into a detached room.) SCARLETT: Ashley! ASHLEY: Scarlett...who are you hiding from here?...What are you up to? Why aren't you upstairs resting with the other girls? What is this, Scarlett? A secret? SCARLETT: Well, Ashley, Ashley...! love you. ASHLEY: Scarlett... SCARLETT: I love you, I do. ASHLEY: Well, isn't it enough that you gathered every other maheart today? You always had mine. You cut your teeth on it. SCARLETT: Oh, don't tease me now. Have I your heart my darling? I love you, I love you... ASHLEY: You mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them. SCARLETT: Oh, I could never hate you and, and I know you must care about me. Oh, you do care, don't you? ASHLEY: Yes, I care. Oh can't we go away and forget we ever said these things? SCARLETT: But how can we do that? Don't you, don't you want to marry me? ASHLEY: I'm going to marry Melanie. SCARLETT: But you can't, not if you care for me. ASHLEY: Oh my dear, why must you make me say things that will hurt you? How can I make you understand? You're so young and I'm thinking, you don't know what marriage means. SCARLETT: I know I love you and I want to be your wife. You don't love Melanie. ASHLEY: She's like me, Scarlett. She's part of my blood, we understand each other. SCARLETT: But you love me! ASHLEY: How could I help loving you? You have all the passion for life that I lack. But that kind of love isn't enough to make a successful marriage for two people who are as different as we are. SCARLETT: Why don't you say it, you coward? You're afraid to marry me. You'd rather live with that silly little fool who can't open her mouth except to say "yes", "no",and raise a houseful of mealy- mouthed brats just like her! ASHLEY: You mustn't say things like that about Melanie. SCARLETT: Who are you to tell me I mustn't? You led me on, you made me believe you wanted to marry me! ASHLEY: Now Scarlett, be fair. I never at any time... SCARLETT: You did, it's true, you did! I'll hate you till I die! I can't think of anything bad enough to call you... (Ashley leaves. Scarlett throws a vase to the wall in anger. The crashing of the vase startles Rhett Butler. He rises up from the couch in a dark corner of the room.) RHETT: Has the war started? SCARLETT: Sir, you...you should have made your presence known. RHETT: In the middle of that beautiful love scene? That wouldn't have been very tactful, would it? But don't worry. Your secret is safe with me. SCARLETT: Sir, you are no gentleman. RHETT: And you miss are no lady. Don't think that I hold that against you. Ladies have never held any charm for me. SCARLETT: First you take a low, common advantage of me, then you insult me! RHETT: I meant it as a compliment. And I hope to see more of you when you're free of the spell of the elegant Mr. Wilkes. He doesn't strike me as half good enough for a girl of your...what was it...your passion for living? SCARLETT How dare you! You aren't fit to wipe his boot! RHETT: And you were going to hate him for the rest of your life. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 3 Scarlett Marrying Charles (Outside, there's chaos. Gentlemen, including Ashley, are leaving for the call of war.) CHARLES: Miss 0' Hara! Miss 0' Hara, isn't it thrilling? Mr.against us. SCARLETT: Oh, fiddle-dee-dee. Don't you men ever think about anything important? CHARLES: But it's war, Miss O'Hara! And everybody's going off to enlist, they're going right away. I'm going, too! SCARLETT: Everybody? CHARLES: Oh, Miss O'Hara, will you be sorry? To see us go,I mean. SCARLETT: I'll cry to my pillow every night. CHARLES: Oh, Miss O'Hara, I've told you I loved you. I think you're the most beautiful girl in the world. And the sweetest, the dearest. I know that I couldn't hope that you could love me, so "clumsy and stupid, not nearly good enough for you. But if you could, if you could think of marrying me, I'd do anything in the world for you, just anything, I promise! SCARLETT: Oh, what did you say? CHARLES: Miss O'Hara, I said, would you marry me? SCARLETT: Yes, Mr. Hamilton, I will. CHARLES: You will, you'll marry me? You'll wait for me? SCARLETT: Well, I don't think I'd want to wait. CHARLES: You mean you'll marry me before I go? Oh, Miss O'Hara...Scarlett...when may I speak to your father? SCARLETT: The sooner, the better. CHARLES: I'll go now, I can't wait. Will you excuse me? Dear? (The day after Melanie and Ashley's wedding, Scarlett marries Charles Hamilton.) MELANIE: Scarlett. I thought of you at our wedding yesterday and I hope that yours would be as beautiful. And it was. SCARLETT: Was it? MELANIE: Now we're really and truly sisters. Charles. CHARLES: Don't cry darling. The war will be over in a few weeks and I'll be coming back to you. Chapter 4 Scarlett's Second Contact with Butler ( Charles died at the front, but Scarlett is not at all sad. She goes to the donation party with Melanie, wearing black.) DR. MEADE: Ladies and gentlemen. I have important news,glorious news. Another triumph for our magnificent men in arms. General Lee has completely whipped the enemy and swept the Yankee army northward from Virginia! And now, a happy surprise for all of us! We have with us tonight that most daring of all blockade runners, whose fleet "schooners slipping past the Yankee guns have brought us here the very woolens and laces we wear tonight. I refer, ladies and gentlemen, to that ^will o'the wisp of the bounding main, none other than our friend from Charleston, Captain Rhett Butler! MELANIE: Captain Butler, such a pleasure to see you again. I met you last at my husband's home. RHETT: That's kind of you to remember, Mrs. Wilkes. MELANIE: Did you meet Captain Butler at Twelve Oaks, Scarlett?SCARLETT: Yes I, I think so. RHETT: Only for a moment, Mrs. Hamilton, it was in the library.You, uh, had broken something. SCARLETT: Yes, Captain Butler, I remember you. MAN: Ladies, the Confederacy asks for your jewelry on behalf of our noble cause. SCARLETT: We aren't wearing any, we're in mourning. RHETT:Wait. On behalf of Mrs. Wilkes and Mrs. Hamilton,. MAN: Thank you, Captain Butler. MELANIE: Just a moment, please. MAN: But,RHETT: It was a very beautiful thing to do, Mrs. Wilkes.SCARLETT: Here, you can have mine, too. For the cause. RHETT:And you Mrs. Hamilton. I know just how much that means to you. MAN: Melanie.-.I need your approval as a member of the committee with something we want to do, that's rather shocking. Will you excuse us, please? RHETT: I'll say one thing. The war makes the most peculiar widows. SCARLETT: I wish you'd go away. If you'd had any raising, you'd know I never want to see you again. RHETT: Now, why be silly?You've no reason for hating me. I'll carry your guilty secret to my grave. SCARLETT: Oh, I guess I'd be very unpatriotic to hate one of the great heroes of the war. I do declare, I was surprised that you'd turned out to be such a noble character. RHETT: I can't bear to take advantage of your little girl's ideas, Miss O'Hara. I am neither noble nor heroic. SCARLETT: But you are ablockade runner. RHETT: For profit. And profit only SCARLETT:Are you trying to tell me you don't believe in the cause? RHETT: I believe in Rhett Butler. He's the only cause I know. The rest doesn't mean much to me. DR. MEADE: And now, ladies and gentlemen. I have a startling surprise for the benefit of the hospital. Gentlemen, if you wish to lead the opening real with the lady of your choice, you must bid for her. WOMAN: Caroline Meade, how could you permit your husband to conduct this, this, slave auction? CAROLINE MEADE: Darling Merry Weather, how dare you criticize me? Melanie Wilkes told the doctor that if it's for the benefit of the cause, it's quite all right. WOMAN: She did? AUNT PITTY: Oh dear, oh dear, where are my smelling salts? I think I shall faint. CAROLINE MEADE: Don't you dare faint, Lilly Beth Hamilton. IfMelanie says it's all right, it is all right. DR. MEADE: Come gentlemen, do I hear your bids? Make your offers! Don't be bashful, gentlemen! MAN1: Twenty dollars! Twenty dollars for Miss Maybelle Merryweather. MAN2: Twenty five dollars for Miss Fanny Ossing! DR. MEADE: Only twenty five dollars to give. RHETT: One hundred and fiftydollars in gold. DR. MEADE: For what lady, sir? RHETT: For Mrs. Charles Hamilton. DR. MEADE: For whom, sir? RHETT: Mrs.Charles Hamilton. DR. MEADE: Mrs. Hamilton i