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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: ing at regular intervals. The Gaul, on the contrary, lively
and petulant, expressed himself with lips, eyes, hands, all at
once, having twenty different ways of explaining his
thoughts, whereas his interlocutor seemed to have only one,
immutably stereotyped on his brain.
The strong contrast they presented would at once have
struck the most superficial observer; but a physiognomist,
regarding them closely, would have defined their particular
characteristics by saying, that if the Frenchman was "all
eyes," the Englishman was "all ears."
In fact, the visual apparatus of the one had been sin-
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