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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy: and opened his eyes. The priest, on finishing the prayer, put the
cross to the cold forehead, then slowly returned it to the stand,
and after standing for two minutes more in silence, he touched
the huge, bloodless hand that was turning cold.
"He is gone," said the priest, and would have moved away; but
suddenly there was a faint stir in the mustaches of the dead man
that seemed glued together, and quite distinctly in the hush they
heard from the bottom of the chest the sharply defined sounds:
"Not quite ...soon."
And a minute later the face brightened, a smile came out under
the mustaches, and the women who had gathered round began
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