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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: "That is possible, but I do not remember it."
"What! you do not remember it?"
"I never read the dispatches I send. My duty being to
forget them, the shortest way is not to know them."
This reply showed Nicholas Pigassof's character. In
the meanwhile the kibitka pursued its way, at a pace which
Michael longed to render more rapid. But Nicholas and
his horse were accustomed to a pace which neither of them
would like to alter. The horse went for two hours and
rested one -- so on, day and night. During the halts the
horse grazed, the travelers ate in company with the faithful
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