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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: all that day to come across experienced towns-
people, who knew all the tricks of the peasants in
selling firewood, and would not believe that he
had actually brought the wood from the country
as he assured them. He got hungry, and felt
cold in his ragged woollen coat. It was nearly
below zero when evening came on; his horse
which he had treated without mercy, hoping soon
to sell it to the knacker's yard, refused to move a
step. So Ivan Mironov was quite ready to sell
his firewood at a loss when he met Eugene Mihail-
The Forged Coupon |
