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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: One, Vasiliev, was a young man of some education, a clerk, who
had killed his mistress in a fit of jealousy. His
fellow-prisoners liked him because he was merry and generous and
firm in his behaviour with the prison authorities. He knew the
laws and insisted on their being carried out. Therefore he was
disliked by the authorities. Three weeks before a jailer struck
one of the scavengers who had spilt some soup over his new
uniform. Vasiliev took the part of the scavenger, saying that it
was not lawful to strike a prisoner.
"I'll teach you the law," said the jailer, and gave Vasiliev a
scolding. Vasiliev replied in like manner, and the jailer was
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