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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: paler. These days Scarlett hardly thought of Wade as a person. He
was only another worry, another mouth to feed. Some day when the
present emergency was over, she would play with him, tell him
stories and teach him his A B C's but now she did not have the time
or the soul or the inclination. And, because he always seemed
underfoot when she was most weary and worried, she often spoke
sharply to him.
It annoyed her that her quick reprimands brought such acute fright
to his round eyes, for he looked so simple minded when he was
frightened. She did not realize that the little boy lived shoulder
to shoulder with terror too great for an adult to comprehend. Fear
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