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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Michael Strogoff by Jules Verne: the chief of police, adding, and slightly lowering his voice,
"there was a time, sire, when NONE returned from Siberia."
"Well, whilst I live, Siberia is and shall be a country
whence men CAN return."
The Czar had the right to utter these words with some
pride, for often, by his clemency, he had shown that Rus-
sian justice knew how to pardon.
The head of the police did not reply to this observation,
but it was evident that he did not approve of such half-
measures. According to his idea, a man who had once
passed the Ural Mountains in charge of policemen, ought
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