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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: scended the steep slope, when, after having followed the
high banks of the Tom to the furthest extremity of the
town, they happily found a breach in the inclosure.
The road to Irkutsk was the only one which penetrated
towards the east. It could not be mistaken. It was pos-
sible that on the morrow, after some hours of carousal, the
scouts of the Emir, once more scattering over the steppes,
might cut off all communication. It was of the greatest
importance therefore to get in advance of them. How
could Nadia bear the fatigues of that night, from the l6th
to the 17th of August? How could she have found
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