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This was made the excuse for still more galling restrictions on personal and intellectual liberty, until it was hard to distinguish between "administrative dictatorship" and autocracy. As regards the adeantamentos, Franco's declared policy was to make a clean slate of the past, and, for the future, to augment the civil list.
"Yes," she said at last; "yes, it was every bit of it true every bit, Mr. Headland. For the moment, in that room of terror, I had forgotten poor Franco's death. But now yes, I can remember it all fully. My uncle spoke the truth, Mr. Headland I can promise you that." Cleek sighed. Then: "But it was your revolver he used, Miss Brellier? Try to remember. He said that he told you of it at the time.
All the old town is within vast crumbling red walls built on a mound with a moat around them. Civic zeal has trimmed the mound into public "grounds," and the moat is lively with ornamental ducks; while a hundred yards farther rises the white statue of Castel Franco's greatest son, no other than Giorgione himself, a dashing cavalier-like gentleman with a brush instead of a rapier.
The second step, as was demonstrated in France with the Cagoulards and in Spain with Franco's Fifth Column, is to organize secret armies capable of starting sporadic outbreaks tantamount to civil war a procedure which would naturally deflect the country's energies in war time.
He sprang forward to it, seized it in his mouth, and came trotting back to the farmer's wife, and laid it down at her feet; and then, standing back a few steps, he looked up into her face, with a very earnest expression of countenance, which seemed to say, "What do you want me to do next?" This very act of Franco's embarrassed the woman considerably.
He came swiftly along, leaping and staggering through the deep snow; and he seemed delighted to have found Jonas and his party at last. Jonas patted his head. Both Jonas and Franco were overjoyed to see each other. Jonas patted Franco's head and praised him, while the dog wagged his tail, whisked about, and shook the snow off from his back and sides. "What dog is that?" said the woman.
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