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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: did not see his old mother, who had fallen back almost
inanimate upon a bench. But when the postmaster has-
tened to assist her, the aged woman raised herself. Sud-
denly a thought occurred to her. She denied by her son!
It was not possible. As for being herself deceived, and
taking another for him, equally impossible. It was cer-
tainly her son whom she had just seen; and if he had not
recognized her it was because he would not, it was because
he ought not, it was because he had some cogent reasons
for acting thus! And then, her mother's feelings arising
within her, she had only one thought -- "Can I, unwittingly,
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