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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 it would be, by its defenders, whenever he should sum-
mon the besiegers to the assault.
This he could not now delay in doing. All must be over
by the time that the Russian troops should come in sight of
Irkutsk. Ogareff's arrangements were made, and on this
evening a note fell from the top of the earthworks into
Sangarre's hands.
On the next day, that is to say during the hours of dark-
ness from the 5th to the 6th of October, at two o'clock in
the morning, Ivan Ogareff had resolved to deliver up
Irkutsk.
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