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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: of two of them, and when I turned round Fyodor was sitting
astride of a third. We did not let our three fine fellows go; we
tied their hands behind their backs so that they might not do us
or themselves any harm, and took the fools into the kitchen. We
were angry with them and at the same time ashamed to look at
them; they were peasants we knew, and were good fellows; we were
sorry for them. They were quite stupid with terror. One was
crying and begging our pardon, the second looked like a wild
beast and kept swearing, the third knelt down and began to pray.
I said to Fedya: 'Don't bear them a grudge; let them go, the
rascals!' He fed them, gave them a bushel of flour each, and let
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