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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Rezanov by Gertrude Atherton: "Two hundred and ninety-four," replied Reza-
nov proudly.
"A provision that exceeds my most sanguine
hopes. The only thing that mitigates my satisfac-
tion is that there is not a mill in the settlement to
grind it."
Rezanov sprang to his feet with a violent ex-
clamation, his face very red. There was no one
whose good opinion he valued as he did that of this
brilliant, dissipated, disinterested old genius; and
he felt like a schoolboy. But although he started
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