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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: "I think I had better go and have a talk with him. That might settle
the affair. Several times have people charged me with similar
commissions, and never have they repented of it. General Betristchev
is an example."
"Nevertheless I am ashamed that you should be put to the annoyance of
having to converse with such a fellow."
[At this point there occurs a long hiatus.]
"And above all things, such a transaction would need to be carried
through in secret," said Chichikov. "True, the law does not forbid
such things, but there is always the risk of a scandal."
"Quite so, quite so," said Lienitsin with head bent down.
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