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Moreover, Scarlett and her father were bound together by a mutual suppression agreement. If Gerald caught her climbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, he castigated her personally and with vehemence, but he did not mention the fact to Ellen or to Mammy. And when Scarlett discovered him jumping fences after his solemn promise to his wife, or learned the exact amount of his losses at poker, as she always did from County gossip, she refrained from mentioning the fact at the supper table in the artfully artless manner Suellen had. Scarlett and her father each assured the other solemnly that to bring such matters to the ears of Ellen would only hurt her, and nothing would induce them to wound her gentleness.
另個，還有一個相互制約的協議把思嘉和父親彼此聯系在一起。要是杰拉爾德看見女兒爬籬笆而不愿走道到大門口去，他便當面責備她，但事后并不向愛倫或嬤嬤提出。而思嘉要是發現他在向太太鄭重保證之后還照樣騎著馬跳籬笆，或者從縣里人的閑談中聽說他打撲克時輸了多少錢，她也不在吃晚飯時像蘇倫那樣直統統地說起這件事。思嘉和她父親認真地彼此交代過：誰要是把這種搬到母親耳邊，那只會使她傷心，而無論如何他們也是犯不著這樣做的。
Scarlett looked at her father in the fading light, and, without knowing why, she found it comforting to be in his presence. There was something vital and earthy and coarse about him that appealed to her. Being the least analytic of people, she did not realize that this was because she possessed in some degree these same qualities, despite sixteen years of effort on the part of Ellen and Mammy to obliterate them.
如今在擦黑的微光中思嘉望著父親，也不知為什么她覺得一到他面前心里就舒服了。他身上有一種生氣勃勃的粗俗味兒吸引著她。她作為一個最沒有分析頭腦的人，并不明白這是由于她自己身上也或多或少有著同樣稟性的緣故，盡管愛倫和嬤嬤花了１６年的心血想它抹掉，也終歸徒然。
“You look very presentable now,” she said, “and I don’t think anyone will suspect you’ve been up to your tricks unless you brag about them. But it does seem to me that after you broke your knee last year, jumping that same fence—”
“好了，現在你完全可以出臺了，"她說，"我想除非你自己吹牛，誰也不會懷疑你玩過這種花招的。不過我覺得，你去年已經摔壞了膝蓋，現在又跳這同一道籬笆----”
“Well, may I be damned if I’ll have me own daughter telling me what I shall jump and not jump,” he shouted, giving her cheek another pinch. “It’s me own neck, so it is. And besides, Missy, what are you doing out here without your shawl?”
“唔，如果我還得靠自己的女兒來告訴我什么地方該跳或不該跳，那可太糟糕了，"他叫嚷著，又在她臉頰上擰了一把。 “頸脖了是我自己的，就是這樣。另外，姑娘，你光著肩膀在這兒干什么？”
