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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: one may understand that the unity of so vast a state must
be difficult to maintain, and that it could only be the work
of time, aided by the wisdom of many successive rulers.
Be that as it may, Ivan Ogareff had hitherto managed
to escape all search, and very probably he might have
rejoined the Tartar army. But at every station where the
train stopped, inspectors came forward who scrutinized the
travelers and subjected them all to a minute examination,
as by order of the superintendent of police, these officials
were seeking Ivan Ogareff. The government, in fact, be-
lieved it to be certain that the traitor had not yet been able
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