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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne: of the faithful would pass without perceiving them amid
the thick foliage, in which they were wholly concealed.
The discordant tones of the voices and instruments drew nearer,
and now droning songs mingled with the sound of the tambourines and cymbals.
The head of the procession soon appeared beneath the trees,
a hundred paces away; and the strange figures who performed the religious
ceremony were easily distinguished through the branches.
First came the priests, with mitres on their heads,
and clothed in long lace robes. They were surrounded by men,
women, and children, who sang a kind of lugubrious psalm,
interrupted at regular intervals by the tambourines and cymbals;
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