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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: him.' I walk and walk up and down from wall to wall, and cannot
help thinking. I think, 'I have betrayed him.' I lie down and
cover myself up, and hear something whispering, 'Betrayed!
betrayed Mitin! Mitin betrayed!' I know it is an hallucination,
but cannot help listening. I wish to fall asleep, I cannot. I
wish not to think, and cannot cease. That is terrible!" and as
Shoustova spoke she got more and more excited, and twisted and
untwisted the lock of hair round her finger.
"Lydia, dear, be calm," the mother said, touching her shoulder.
But Shoustova could not stop herself.
"It is all the more terrible--" she began again, but did not
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