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@@@@@The 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 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 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, Willi