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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Witch, et. al by Anton Chekhov: well, they drove you all on to the steamer, mixed you with the
healthy ones, hurriedly counted you over, and in the confusion
nothing amiss was noticed, and when the steamer had started they
saw that there were paralytics and consumptives in the last stage
lying about on the deck. . . ."
Gusev did not understand Pavel Ivanitch; but supposing he was
being blamed, he said in self-defence:
"I lay on the deck because I had not the strength to stand; when
we were unloaded from the barge on to the ship I caught a fearful
chill."
"It's revolting," Pavel Ivanitch went on. "The worst of it is
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