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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: disappeared through a little door which Michael had not
before perceived.
The house was surrounded by Tartar soldiers, and neither
Michael nor the reporters could effect their retreat.
Alcide Jolivet, his useless dispatch in his hand, had run
to Blount, stretched on the ground, and had bravely lifted
him on his shoulders, with the intention of flying with him.
He was too late!
Both were prisoners; and, at the same time, Michael,
taken unawares as he was about to leap from the window,
fell into the hands of the Tartars!
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