“Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.”

—  Margaret Mitchell, book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

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