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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: own safety was in question, was frightfully pale. She ex-
pected some terrible scene. It was not without reason that
her son had been brought before the Emir. She therefore
trembled for him. Ivan Ogareff was not a man to forgive
having been struck in public by the knout, and his vengeance
would be merciless. Some frightful punishment familiar
to the barbarians of Central Asia would, no doubt, be in-
flicted on Michael. Ogareff had protected him against the
soldiers because he well knew what would happen by reserv-
ing him for the justice of the Emir.
The mother and son had not been able to speak to-
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