2013, ISBN: 1230089934

[EAN: 9781230089935], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers … Plus…

[EAN: 9781230089935], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: . not convince her. They had high words together, and at length she was overheard to say, You shall learn what it is to offer such an insult to a woman like me! After which she left him, and retired to her own room, the door of which she shut with violence. M. de la Pivardiere also retired into the room that had been prepared for him. From that moment he disappeared. To comprehend properly the remainder of this strange story, the reader must bear in mind that, in those days, the domestic life in the interior of the castles and chateaux was of the strictest seclusion and privacy. There were no neighbours except those of the village belonging to the lord of the place, and they seldom dreamed of either commenting upon his acts or questioning the divine right of thel seigneur to do as he pleased. The domestics were generally hereditary servants, whose entire and perfect fidelity to the family was the virtue of their class. Any crime could be perpetrated in these country residences with the profoundest secrecy, and it was quite possible to stifle all evidence of actions that, if once known, would seem of too monstrous growth for society to contain, much less to conceal. Added to this, high roads were few and bad in those parts of the country, remote from Paris, or at a distance from large towns; and small towns and villages within a few miles of each other were as much isolated as if they had stood in different countries. The system of the administration of justice was complicated, and very different from the present system of centralisation. Every town had its lieutenantparticulier, its procureur, its judge, and all the machinery of a separate administration of justice, except in cases of appeal to a higher court. No.<

2013, ISBN: 1230089934

[EAN: 9781230089935], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Plus…

[EAN: 9781230089935], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: . not convince her. They had high words together, and at length she was overheard to say, You shall learn what it is to offer such an insult to a woman like me! After which she left him, and retired to her own room, the door of which she shut with violence. M. de la Pivardiere also retired into the room that had been prepared for him. From that moment he disappeared. To comprehend properly the remainder of this strange story, the reader must bear in mind that, in those days, the domestic life in the interior of the castles and chateaux was of the strictest seclusion and privacy. There were no neighbours except those of the village belonging to the lord of the place, and they seldom dreamed of either commenting upon his acts or questioning the divine right of thel seigneur to do as he pleased. The domestics were generally hereditary servants, whose entire and perfect fidelity to the family was the virtue of their class. Any crime could be perpetrated in these country residences with the profoundest secrecy, and it was quite possible to stifle all evidence of actions that, if once known, would seem of too monstrous growth for society to contain, much less to conceal. Added to this, high roads were few and bad in those parts of the country, remote from Paris, or at a distance from large towns; and small towns and villages within a few miles of each other were as much isolated as if they had stood in different countries. The system of the administration of justice was complicated, and very different from the present system of centralisation. Every town had its lieutenantparticulier, its procureur, its judge, and all the machinery of a separate administration of justice, except in cases of appeal to a higher court. No.<

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