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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: was ten years old Katya lived with us as one of the family, then
she was sent to a boarding-school, and only spent the summer
holidays with us. I never had time to look after her education. I
only superintended it at leisure moments, and so I can say very
little about her childhood.
The first thing I remember, and like so much in remembrance, is
the extraordinary trustfulness with which she came into our house
and let herself be treated by the doctors, a trustfulness which
was always shining in her little face. She would sit somewhere
out of the way, with her face tied up, invariably watching
something with attention; whether she watched me writing or
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