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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: was, could make good use of it.
It was four o'clock in the afternoon. Michael Strogoff,
compelled to wait till nightfall, in order to pass the fortifica-
tions, but not desiring to show himself, remained in the
posting-house, and there partook of food.
There was a great crowd in the public room. They
were talking of the expected arrival of a corps of Musco-
vite troops, not at Omsk, but at Tomsk -- a corps intended
to recapture that town from the Tartars of Feofar-Khan.
Michael Strogoff lent an attentive ear, but took no part
in the conversation. Suddenly a cry made him tremble, a
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