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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol: force themselves through into the room. All this is in front of the
house; but you should see what he has in the garden. What is there not
there? Plums, cherries, every sort of vegetable, sunflowers,
cucumbers, melons, peas, a threshing-floor, and even a forge.
A very fine man, Ivan Ivanovitch! He is very fond of melons: they are
his favourite food. As soon as he has dined, and come out on his
balcony, in his shirt sleeves, he orders Gapka to bring two melons,
and immediately cuts them himself, collects the seeds in a paper, and
begins to eat. Then he orders Gapka to fetch the ink-bottle, and, with
his own hand, writes this inscription on the paper of seeds: "These
melons were eaten on such and such a date." If there was a guest
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