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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: They cut him like a knife.
Maria Ivanovna apologised, and went into the
room, and he could hear her soothing the child.
The child became quiet, and she returned.
"That is her baby; she'll be back in a minute.
You are a friend of hers, I suppose?"
"Yes--a friend--but I think I had better
come back later on," said Michael Ivanovich, pre-
paring to go. It was too unbearable, this prep-
aration to meet her, and any explanation seemed
impossible.
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