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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: there. A woman stood close to the wall, so
wrapped up in shawls that her face could scarcely
be seen. Motionless she gazed at the aquiline
nose, the upturned feet, and the protruding eye-
balls; sobbing and sighing, and drying her tears at
long, regular intervals. A pretty girl of thirteen
was standing at her mother's side, with her eyes
and mouth wide open. A boy of eight clung to
his mother's skirt, and looked intensely at his dead
father without blinking.
From a door near them an official, an officer, a
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