The rugs were rolled, the art was taken down from the walls, her needlepoint chairs whatever she valued, he told her her English fabrics, the china, even her family Bible: it was all to be packed up and carted to Milledgeville and thence put on the train to Savannah, where John's cotton broker had agreed to store their things in his warehouse.
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