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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: of their misery, for it would have been some consolation
to have been together during these days of captivity. Marfa
longed to ask her son's pardon for the harm she had unin-
tentionally done him, for she reproached herself with not
having commanded her maternal feelings. If she had
restrained herself in that post-house at Omsk, when she
found herself face to face with him, Michael would have
passed unrecognized, and all these misfortunes would have
been avoided.
Michael, on his side, thought that if his mother was there,
if Ogareff had brought her with him, it was to make her
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