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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: want to receive the holy communion before he died.
Knowing Sergéi Nikoláyevitch's disbelief in the
religion of the church, no one dared to mention the subject to him,
and the unhappy María Mikháilovna hovered round his
room, wringing her hands and praying.
They awaited my father's arrival impatiently, but were
secretly afraid of his influence on his brother, and hoped against
hope that Sergéi Nikoláyevitch would send for the
priest before his arrival.
"Imagine our surprise and delight," said María Tolstoy,
"when Lyovótchka came out of his room and told María
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