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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: with the empire.
Ogareff recounted, with an assurance which never failed,
numerous fictitious events of his journey. Then, with the
cunning for which he was noted, without dwelling too much
on it at first, he spoke of the gravity of the situation, ex-
aggerating the success of the Tartars and the numbers of
the barbarian forces, as he had when speaking to the Grand
Duke. According to him, the expected succors would be
insufficient, if ever they arrived at all, and it was to be
feared that a battle fought under the walls of Irkutsk would
be as fatal as the battles of Kolyvan, Tomsk, and Kras-
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