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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: the midst of his estate (Kousminski) to a meeting, at which he
would tell them of his intentions and arrange about the price at
which they were to rent the land.
With the pleasant sense of the firmness he had shown in the face
of the steward's arguments, and his readiness to make a
sacrifice, Nekhludoff left the office, thinking over the business
before him, and strolled round the house, through the neglected
flower-garden--this year the flowers were planted in front of the
steward's house--over the tennis ground, now overgrown with
dandelions, and along the lime-tree walk, where he used to smoke
his cigar, and where he had flirted with the pretty Kirimova, his
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