The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: what he knows I should certainly grasp--under-
stand--what I have just seen, and it would not
cause me such suffering.'
"But however much I thought about it, I could
not understand the thing that the colonel knew.
It was evening before I could get to sleep, and then
only after calling on a friend and drinking till I;
was quite drunk.
"Do you think I had come to the conclusion that
the deed I had witnessed was wicked? Oh, no.
Since it was done with such assurance, and was rec-
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