Word: cynicvillain
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...mature artist. Miss Mitchell needs space to develop either a character or a bit of action, and she very wisely, I think, does not hesitate to take that space where it is important. Rhelt Butler is one on whom she lavishes enough care to make him live. A cynicvillain who is undeluded by the sanctity for the Southern cause, he looks after his own welfare by running the blockade for high stakes. There are foils for these two in Mclanie and Ashley Wilkes and in a good many other Southern idealists, and there are hosts of incidental officers, carpetbaggers, Negroes...
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