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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: camp would have no disastrous consequences either to his
mother or to himself. But he did not know that part of
this scene, although it passed so rapidly, had been observed
by Sangarre, Ogareff's spy.
The Tsigane was there, a few paces off, on the bank,
as usual, watching the old Siberian woman. She had not
caught sight of Michael, for he disappeared before she had
time to look around; but the mother's gesture as she kept
back Nadia had not escaped her, and the look in Marfa's
eyes told her all.
It was now beyond doubt that Marfa Strogoff's son, the
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