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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: "What weather! God help us!" he said, and he turned his head from
side to side. "Folk have not carried the oats yet, and the rain
seems as though it had been taken on for good, God bless it."
The shepherd looked at the sky, from which a drizzling rain was
falling, at the wood, at the bailif's wet clothes, pondered, and
said nothing.
"The whole summer has been the same," sighed Meliton. "A bad
business for the peasants and no pleasure for the gentry."
The shepherd looked at the sky again, thought a moment, and said
deliberately, as though chewing each word:
"It's all going the same way. . . . There is nothing good to be
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