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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Underground City by Jules Verne: they encountered Simon Ford, who had quitted his cottage.
"Stop, my friends, stop!" shouted the old man; "if our town
is to be overwhelmed, the floods will rush faster than you can;
no one can possibly escape. But see! the waters are rising
no further! it appears to me the danger is over."
"And our comrades at the far end of the works--what about them?"
cried some of the miners.
"There is nothing to fear for them," replied Simon; "they are working
on a higher level than the bed of the loch."
It was soon evident that the old man was in the right.
The sudden influx of water had rushed to the very lowest
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