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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: than she, came into her life--the year, too, when youth and her
black-eyed cousin, Philippe Robillard, went out of it. For when
Philippe, with his snapping eyes and his wild ways, left Savannah
forever, he took with him the glow that was in Ellen's heart and
left for the bandy-legged little Irishman who married her only a
gentle shell.
But that was enough for Gerald, overwhelmed at his unbelievable
luck in actually marrying her. And if anything was gone from her,
he never missed it. Shrewd man that he was, he knew that it was
no less than a miracle that he, an Irishman with nothing of family
and wealth to recommend him, should win the daughter of one of the
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