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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: remarked to a young man who had lowered his arm--"'that in this
work which . . . '"
The dignified man with the whiskers, the colonel, the merchant,
and several more held their arms and fingers as the priest
required of them, very high, very exactly, as if they liked doing
it; others did it unwillingly and carelessly. Some repeated the
words too loudly, and with a defiant tone, as if they meant to
say, "In spite of all, I will and shall speak." Others whispered
very low, and not fast enough, and then, as if frightened,
hurried to catch up the priest. Some kept their fingers tightly
together, as if fearing to drop the pinch of invisible something
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