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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: The animal, which had not at first seen her, was attacking
the remaining horse. Nadia, leaving the shelter in which
she had been crouching, had run to the carriage, taken one
of Michael's revolvers, and, advancing resolutely towards
the bear, had fired close to it.
The animal, slightly wounded in the shoulder, turned
on the girl, who rushed for protection behind the tarantass,
but then, seeing that the horse was attempting to break its
traces, and knowing that if it did so, and the others were
not recovered, their journey could not be continued, with
the most perfect coolness she again approached the bear,
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