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118 fled in disguise across the frontier from an infuriated peasantry.

The moderate Constitutionalists, shocked at these excesses, concocted a new martial law, which they hoped would serve as a dyke wherewith to stem the steadily-rising tide of the Revolution, as vainly, however, as he who should bid the roaring sea turn its flow.