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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: "I think you are very nasty to even hint such things when you know
very well that England and France are coming in on our side in no
time and--"
"Why, Scarlett! You must have been reading a newspaper! I'm
surprised at you. Don't do it again. It addles women's brains.
For your information, I was in England, not a month ago, and I'll
tell you this. England will never help the Confederacy. England
never bets on the underdog. That's why she's England. Besides,
the fat Dutch woman who is sitting on the throne is a God-fearing
soul and she doesn't approve of slavery. Let the English mill
workers starve because they can't get our cotton but never, never
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