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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy: and everything shivered and shook under him. He seized
Mukhorty's neck, but that too was shaking all over and the
terrible cry grew still more frightful. For some seconds
Vasili Andreevich could not collect himself or understand what
was happening. It was only that Mukhorty, whether to encourage
himself or to call for help, had neighed loudly and
resonantly. 'Ugh, you wretch! How you frightened me, damn
you!' thought Vasili Andreevich. But even when he understood
the cause of his terror he could not shake it off.
'I must calm myself and think things over,' he said to himself,
but yet he could not stop, and continued to urge the horse on,
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