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1  But they did their best for Gerald.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  That was the room that Scarlett liked the best in all the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  To this end, she always saw the best in everyone and remarked kindly upon it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  She was only seventeen, she had superb health and energy, and Charles' people did their best to make her happy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  He felt aggrieved, moreover, that Scarlett should still look desolate after being offered the best of the County boys and Tara, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  "A change of scene will be the best thing in the world for her," said the doctor, only too anxious to be rid of an unsatisfactory patient.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Ashley Wilkes was elected captain, because he was the best rider in the County and because his cool head was counted on to keep some semblance of order.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  Like herself, the town was a mixture of the old and new in Georgia, in which the old often came off second best in its conflicts with the self-willed and vigorous new.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  Scarlett vaguely remembered two ladies of those names who came from Atlanta to Tara to attend her wedding and she remembered that they were Miss Pittypat's best friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  Jonas Wilkerson, hat in hand, stood beside her, his sallow tight-skinned face hardly concealing the fury of hate that possessed him at being so unceremoniously turned out of the best overseer's job in the County.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  She was going to say "when you haven't the man you want," but Gerald, incensed by the cavalier way in which she treated his proffered gift, the thing which, next to Ellen, he loved best in the whole world uttered a roar.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  Moreover, Able was the best shot in the Troop, a real sharpshooter who could pick out the eye of a squirrel at seventy-five yards, and, too, he knew all about living outdoors, building fires in the rain, tracking animals and finding water.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting, gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that these pleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  Ellen never fully realized that it was only a veneer, for Scarlett always showed her best face to her mother, concealing her escapades, curbing her temper and appearing as sweet-natured as she could in Ellen's presence, for her mother could shame her to tears with a reproachful glance.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  Though Pork's former owner later offered to buy him back at twice his value, Gerald obstinately refused, for the possession of his first slave, and that slave the "best damn valet on the Coast," was the first step upward toward his heart's desire, Gerald wanted to be a slave owner and a landed gentleman.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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