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The Secret Agent

CHAPTER VII
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He would define it bitterly as protection extended to the criminal class of revolutionists.

It would mean just that to him." "Yes.

But what do you mean ?" "I mean to say, first, that there's but poor comfort in being able to declare that any given act of violence--damaging property or destroying life--is not the work of anarchism at all, but of something else altogether--some species of authorised scoundrelism.

This, I fancy, is much more frequent than we suppose.

Next, it's obvious that the existence of these people in the pay of foreign governments destroys in a measure the efficiency of our supervision.


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