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With harvest hardly begun, a heavy storm could ruin much of the wheat corn, and that would only lead to higher prices, prices that had continued to rise since the previous winter, driving up the price of bread and, unhappily for him, the amount of small theft, even if other forms of peacebreaking seemed to be declining in his section.

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A block farther, he finally had to stop and slip down as alleyway to relieve himself - that would have been peacebreaking in Fairhaven.

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It's cleaner, the people are more prosperous; and there's less peacebreaking.

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So did the slight but slow increase in such peacebreaking.

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Or was Arkos indeed involved in some hidden form of peacebreaking?

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Or is it more peacebreaking of the kind that comes to the Patrol's attention?

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"They say there be more peacebreaking there in the past eight-days," offered the boot maker, turning toward the shelf on the wall where rested a pair of white and thick-soled Patrol boots.

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The book didn't give any penalties for peacebreaking, and that meant, from what Isork had said, that once someone had been found guilty of breaking the peace, judgment was in Isork's hands - or those of the Council.

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He still walked the streets with the area patrols occasionally, and while peacebreaking had dropped for a time, the number of offenders had seemed unchanged for the past two seasons.

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There's more peacebreaking here than in the other three combined.

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