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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: forward, a little to one side.
"I have the honour to present myself to your high excellency," he
said aloud: "the teacher and instructor of your nephew, formerly
a pupil of the veterinary institute, and a nobleman by birth,
Pobyedimsky!"
This politeness on the part of my tutor pleased my mother very
much. She gave a smile, and waited in thrilled suspense to hear
what clever thing he would say next; but my tutor, expecting his
dignified address to be answered with equal dignity -- that is,
that my uncle would say "H'm!" like a general and hold out two
fingers -- was greatly confused and abashed when the latter
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