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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: "Yes, if there is no other way of regaining our liberty."
"Do you know of any other?" asked Blount, looking
at his companion.
"Certainly. We are not belligerents; we are neutral,
and we will claim our freedom."
"From that brute of a Feofar-Khan?"
"No; he would not understand," answered Jolivet; "but
from his lieutenant, Ivan Ogareff."
"He is a villain."
" No doubt; but the villain is a Russian. He knows that
it does not do to trifle with the rights of men, and he has
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