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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: sedate smile never left her face; her daughter Lukerya, a village
peasant woman, who had been beaten by her husband, simply screwed
up her eyes at the student and said nothing, and she had a
strange expression like that of a deaf mute.
"At just such a fire the Apostle Peter warmed himself," said the
student, stretching out his hands to the fire, "so it must have
been cold then, too. Ah, what a terrible night it must have been,
granny! An utterly dismal long night!"
He looked round at the darkness, shook his head abruptly and
asked:
"No doubt you have been at the reading of the Twelve Gospels?"
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