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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: terror, when he gazed at the hat, the well-brushed
beard, and above all the gold-rimmed eyeglasses,
that he could not reply at once. When Volgin
repeated his question the boy pulled himself to-
gether, and said, "Ours." "But whose is
'ours'?" said Volgin, shaking his head and
smiling. The boy was wearing shoes of plaited
birch bark, bands of linen round his legs, a dirty,
unbleached shirt ragged at the shoulder, and a cap
the peak of which had been torn.
"Whose is 'ours'?"
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