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The Czar’s Spy

CHAPTER X
16/26

"The people will revolt, as they did in Poland.

The Finnish Government can only appeal to the Czar through the Governor-General, and one can easily imagine that their suggestions never reach the Emperor.

It is said here that the harsher and more corrupt the official, the greater honor does he receive from Petersburg.

But trouble is brewing for Russia," he added.

"A very serious trouble--depend upon it." I looked upon the gray dismal scene, the empty port, the silent quay, the dark line of gloomy pine forest away beyond the town, the broken coast and the wide expanse of water glittering in the northern sunset.
Yes.


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