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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: negligent pose and how the sun gleamed on his gold hair and
mustache. Even the older men stopped to listen to his words.
"Why, gentlemen, if Georgia fights, I'll go with her. Why else
would I have joined the Troop?" he said. His gray eyes opened
wide and their drowsiness disappeared in an intensity that
Scarlett had never seen before. "But, like Father, I hope the
Yankees will let us go in peace and that there will be no
fighting--" He held up his hand with a smile, as a babel of
voices from the Fontaine and Tarleton boys began. "Yes, yes, I
know we've been insulted and lied to--but if we'd been in the
Yankees' shoes and they were trying to leave the Union, how would
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