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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: the idea entered his mind to kill her. He mar-
velled at himself at first, and shook his head; but
the next moment he seized the knife he had hid-
den in his boot, knocked the woman down on the
floor, and cut her throat. When the children be-
gan to scream, he killed them also and went away.
He did not look out for another place to spend
the night, but at once left the town. In a village
some distance away he went to the inn and slept
there. The next day he returned to the district
town, and there he overheard in the street Maria
The Forged Coupon |
