1 And the churches and the Masonic hall are left.
2 So were four churches with their Ladies' Aid and Missionary societies.
3 I'll contribute to their damned charities and I'll go to their damned churches.
4 Mrs. O'Hara said Scarlett must go to church and say some Rosaries for Carreen's recovery.
5 They ran the three churches to which they belonged, the clergy, the choirs and the parishioners.
6 But you girls must stand up for me if the church members want to run me out of town for doing it.
7 Scarlett's conscience smote her at this last, for it had been months since she had been to church.
8 She sank down on the steps of the church and buried her head in her hands until she could breathe more easily.
9 But she had not put foot in the church in years, for religion had gone from her as many of Ellen's other teachings had gone.
10 Once she would have thought this omission a mortal sin but, somehow, staying away from church did not seem so sinful now as it formerly had.
11 She was their opening wedge into the old society they wished to enter, the society which scorned them, would not return calls and bowed frigidly in churches.
12 This was a more sober heartfelt joy, a deep-souled feeling of thanksgiving, and the churches were filled as ministers reverently thanked God for the deliverance of the state.
13 Other Atlanta women would have nothing to do with them and even refused to bow to them in church, so when business brought Scarlett to their homes, she was like an answer to prayer.
14 Scarlett knew the town was rocking but she did not realize the extent of public feeling until Mrs. Merriwether, urged on by her church circle, took it upon herself to speak to her for her own good.
15 He took her to plays and annoyed her by whispering that God probably didn't approve of such amusements, and to churches and, sotto voce, retailed funny obscenities and then reproved her for laughing.
16 The town was even more alive than she realized, for there were new barrooms by the dozens; prostitutes, following the army, swarmed the town and bawdy houses were blossoming with women to the consternation of the church people.