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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: lodgings.
The chief of police takes a bribe. The gov-
ernor of the province also secretly accepts a bribe.
Taxes are being collected. In the village, while
a cow is sold for payment, the police inspector is
bribed by a factory owner, who thus escapes taxes
altogether. And again a village court scene, and
a sentence carried into execution--the lash!
"Ilia Vasilievich, could you not spare me
that?"
"No."
The Forged Coupon |
