Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 19
rned by good laws, the land-owners have no longer such absolute power overtheir tenants as they had in what are called thefeudal times, — an expression which means thetimes when affairs were in the very state just de-scribed. Besides this, the peasants feel a naturalpride in having lived for many… … Even the women had to do their share wheneverextra help was wanted at the castle, and as thework up there seemed to have no end, there was ageneral alarm whenever the boigt (or steward) ofHagelsberg was seen coming down to the village,for no one could tell who or what would be wantednext. But,…
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