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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: river, whose waters, faintly illumined by a few lamps,
washed the lower portion of the terraces.
The principal personage who has been mentioned, the
giver of the fete, and to whom General Kissoff had been
speaking in that tone of respect with which sovereigns alone
are usually addressed, wore the simple uniform of an officer
of chasseurs of the guard. This was not affectation on his
part, but the custom of a man who cared little for dress, his
contrasting strongly with the gorgeous costumes amid which
he moved, encircled by his escort of Georgians, Cossacks,
and Circassians -- a brilliant band, splendidly clad in the glit-
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