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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: if his heart was still beating. . . . It was still!
He wished to bury him, that he might not be left exposed;
and the hole into which Nicholas had been placed when liv-
ing, was enlarged, so that he might be laid in it -- dead! The
faithful Serko was laid by his master.
At that moment, a noise was heard on the road, about
half a verst distant. Michael Strogoff listened. It was evi-
dently a detachment of horse advancing towards the Dinka.
"Nadia, Nadia!" he said in a low voice.
Nadia, who was kneeling in prayer, arose. "Look,
look!" said he.
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