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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER V
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Both recognise the same conventions, and have a working knowledge of each other's methods and of the routine of their respective trades.

They understand each other, which is advantageous to both, and establishes a sort of amenity in their relations.

Products of the same machine, one classed as useful and the other as noxious, they take the machine for granted in different ways, but with a seriousness essentially the same.

The mind of Chief Inspector Heat was inaccessible to ideas of revolt.

But his thieves were not rebels.


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