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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: the Yankees could not find it, then, then she would tell them
exactly what she thought of them, tell them how she hated and
loathed and despised them. And what a joy that would be! But
until that time came, it was just plain common sense to get along
with them. And if that was hypocrisy, let Atlanta make the most of
it.
She discovered that making friends with the Yankee officers was as
easy as shooting birds on the ground. They were lonely exiles in a
hostile land and many of them were starved for polite feminine
associations in a town where respectable women drew their skirts
aside in passing and looked as if they would like to spit on them.
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