The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy: without raising his eyes. "Something like a bank; we should have
to pay at a fixed time. We do not wish it; it is hard enough as
it is, and that would ruin us completely."
"That's no go. We prefer to go on the old way," began several
dissatisfied, and even rude, voices.
The refusals grew very vehement when Nekhludoff mentioned that he
would draw up an agreement which would have to be signed by him
and by them.
"Why sign? We shall go on working as we have done hitherto. What
is all this for? We are ignorant men."
"We can't agree, because this sort of thing is not what we have
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