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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: And, quickening all of the affairs of the section, was the high
tide of prosperity then rolling over the South. All of the world
was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn
and fertile, produced it abundantly. Cotton was the heartbeat of
the section, the planting and the picking were the diastole and
systole of the red earth. Wealth came out of the curving furrows,
and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the
acres of fleecy white. If cotton could make them rich in one
generation, how much richer they would be in the next!
This certainty of the morrow gave zest and enthusiasm to life, and
the County people enjoyed life with a heartiness that Ellen could
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