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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: roused from his silence.
"I knew it," replied Alcide.
"And do you know that he went disguised as a gypsy!"
asked Blount.
"As a gypsy!" exclaimed Michael, almost involuntarily,
and he suddenly remembered the look of the old Bohemian
at Nijni-Novgorod, his voyage on board the Caucasus, and
his disembarking at Kasan.
"Just well enough to make a few remarks on the subject
in a letter to my cousin," replied Alcide, smiling.
"You lost no time at Kasan," dryly observed the English-
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