Excerpt: To the peasants and even the townspeople in nearby Tours her husband was not, as he thought, a person they regarded with fear and reverence.

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What about the thing you mentioned in connection with today, a very interesting point you made that in fact in terms of the public taking action or helping, helping the police, that they are at the moment hindered from doing that by a fear that the person, the legitimate citizen could be arrested himself for using force to try and withstand a force?

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So the number four represents something a person is afraid of because it symbolically connects with whatever they fear most in their life.

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