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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: All the people who sat and stood in the boxes on the opposite
side, those who sat near and those who were in the parterre, with
their grey, grizzly, bald, or curly heads--all were absorbed in
watching the thin, bony actress who, dressed in silks and laces,
was wriggling before them, and speaking in an unnatural voice.
Some one called "Hush!" when the door opened, and two streams,
one of cool, the other of hot, air touched Nekhludoff's face.
Mariette and a lady whom he did not know, with a red cape and a
big, heavy head-dress, were in the box, and two men also,
Mariette's husband, the General, a tall, handsome man with a
severe, inscrutable countenance, a Roman nose, and a uniform
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