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Since no elections were permitted, all appointments and removals were made from military headquarters, which soon became political beehives, centers of wirepulling and agencies for the distribution of spoils. At the outset civil officers were ordered to retain their offices during good behavior, subject to military control.
The idea of ecclesiastical wirepulling was repugnant to his nature. "One doesn't try for things of that kind, Catia," he answered. "Then one doesn't get them," she retorted curtly. It was Brenton who broke the next period of silence. "Besides," he said, as if his sentences had followed each other without break; "I am not at all sure that my work here is done, by any means." "Scott!"
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