Gone With the Wind

SCARLETT O'HARA was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm
as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her
mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it
was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of
hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black
brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin--that skin so
prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot
Georgia suns.