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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: the sectarians, whose petition he intended to get his former
fellow-officer, Aide-de-camp Bogatyreff, to hand to the Tsar. He
came to Bogatyreff in the morning, and found him about to go out,
though still at breakfast. Bogatyreff was not tall, but firmly
built and wonderfully strong (he could bend a horseshoe), a kind,
honest, straight, and even liberal man. In spite of these
qualities, he was intimate at Court, and very fond of the Tsar
and his family, and by some strange method he managed, while
living in that highest circle, to see nothing but the good in it
and to take no part in the evil and corruption. He never
condemned anybody nor any measure, and either kept silent or
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