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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: It was the southwest point of the lake which Michael
had now reached, carrying Nadia, whose whole life, so to
speak, was concentrated in her eyes. But what could these
two expect, in this wild region, if it was not to die of ex-
haustion and famine? And yet, what remained of the long
journey of four thousand miles for the Czar's courier to
reach his end? Nothing but forty miles on the shore of
the lake up to the mouth of the Angara, and sixty miles
from the mouth of the Angara to Irkutsk; in all, a hundred
miles, or three days' journey for a strong man, even on foot.
Could Michael Strogoff still be that man?
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