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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: could make an impression. But my sleigh flew like the
wind. Not an obstacle on the plain, white and level farther
than the eye could reach! No rivers to stop one! Hard
ice everywhere, the route open, the road sure! But at the
price of what suffering, Nadia, those alone could say, who
have never returned, but whose bodies have been covered up
by the snow storm."
"However, you have returned, brother," said Nadia.
"Yes, but I am a Siberian, and, when quite a child, I
used to follow my father to the chase, and so became inured
to these hardships. But when you said to me, Nadia, that
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