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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: appearance of this Pyotr, far better dressed than Pobyedimsky or
me, excited in me the utmost astonishment, which, to tell the
truth, has lasted to this day. Can such dignified, respectable
people with stern and intellectual faces really be footmen? And
what for?
Pyotr told me that my uncle was in the garden with my mother. I
rushed into the garden.
Nature, knowing nothing of the history of the Gundasov family and
the rank of my uncle, felt far more at ease and unconstrained
than I. There was a clamour going on in the garden such as one
only bears at fairs. Masses of starlings flitting through the air
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