He began a sub rosa campaign of obstruction, terror and depredation along the Thum and Taxis mail routes.

Briefly it may be stated: Operations come first; concepts follow; theory aims at developing concepts, from operations, plus a nomological network for those concepts, which explains the structure of the data obtained through those operations. And this does not exclude the theorist from doing some 'armchairing' in thinking about logically consistent models, their empirical pentialities, their assumptions and their implications; he may, and usually will, venture some possible empirical interpretations of a model, but in doing so he will carefully avoid any substantive (nonformal) pre-operational definition of a concept or construct.

The boys were badly scared by the austere and justicelike manner of ’Squire Eiler.

Oh man! That is just broken!