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When he thought about how he had been slighted, condescended to, manipulated and deceived, he became angry. Obedience was a monastic virtue, but outside the cloisters it had its drawbacks, he thought bitterly. The world of power and property required that a man be suspicious, demanding, and insistent.
He had finished being manipulated. From now on he would do the manipulating.
The first casualty of a civil war was justice, Philip had realized.
