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1  I should have recalled that you are just like me and that you never do anything without an ulterior motive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
2  That would be a relief, for it had been so long since she had told anyone the truth about herself and her motives.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
3  But Scarlett loitered, wondering how to bring up the subject of Ashley without permitting Gerald to suspect her motive.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Scarlett had never trusted any woman and had never credited any woman except her mother with motives other than selfish ones.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
5  She felt puzzled and a little ashamed, as always when people attributed to her emotions and motives they possessed and thought she shared.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL
6  As usual when confronted by Melanie's habit of attributing worthy motives where no worth existed, Scarlett was ashamed and irritated, and suddenly she could not meet either Ashley's or Melanie's eyes.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI
7  She could talk to him about almost everything, with no care for concealing her motives or her real opinions and she never ran out of things to say as she did with Frank--or even with Ashley, if she must be honest with herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII