The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: After Isidor had had a talk with the metropol-
itan and with the attorney-general, he was imme-
diately sent away to a friary, not his own, but one
at Suzdal, which had a prison attached to it; the
prior of that friary was now Father Missael.
XIV
EVERY one tried to look as if Isidor's sermon
contained nothing unpleasant, and nobody men-
tioned it. It seemed to the Czar that the hermit's
words had not made any impression on himself;
but once or twice during that day he caught him-
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