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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: box was empty. He put out his foot--the horse
might have been lying down. But his foot did
not touch anything solid. "Where could they
have taken the horse?" he thought. They cer-
tainly had not harnessed it; all the sledges stood
still outside. Peter Nikolaevich went out of the
stable.
"Stepan, come here!" he called.
Stepan was the head of the workmen's gang.
He was just stepping out of the cottage.
"Here I am!" he said, in a cheerful voice.
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