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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: pay your arrears. You don't pay, any of you, and am I to be
responsible for you?"
"I can't do it."
"His words have no sequel, your honour," said the elder. "The
Tchikildyeevs certainly are of a defective class, but if you will
just ask the others, the root of it all is vodka, and they are a
very bad lot. With no sort of understanding."
The police inspector wrote something down, and said to Osip
quietly, in an even tone, as though he were asking him for water:
"Be off."
Soon he went away; and when he got into his cheap chaise and
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