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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: be true!
Why, only last week, when they were riding home at twilight from
Fairhill, he had said: "Scarlett, I have something so important
to tell you that I hardly know how to say it."
She had cast down her eyes demurely, her heart beating with wild
pleasure, thinking the happy moment had come. Then he had said:
"Not now! We're nearly home and there isn't time. Oh, Scarlett,
what a coward I am!" And putting spurs to his horse, he had raced
her up the hill to Tara.
Scarlett, sitting on the stump, thought of those words which had
made her so happy, and suddenly they took on another meaning, a
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