First Edition Cover of Gone With the Wind

First Edition Cover of Gone With the Wind

Scarlett:  What’s that?

Rhett Butler:  Our gallant lads must have set fire to the warehouses near the depot. There’s enough ammunition in the boxcars to blow us to Tara. We’ll have to hurry to get across the tracks.

Scarlett: You’re not going that way!

Rhett Butler:  We have to. The McDonough Road’s the only one the Yankees haven’t cut yet.

Scarlett:  Oh, wait. I forgot to lock the front door. What are you laughing at?

Rhett Butler:  At you, locking the Yankees out!

–excerpted from “Gone With the Wind” by Margaret Mitchell, 1908 – 1949