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The Purchase Price

CHAPTER VI
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An amanuensis is as reasonable there as on this boat, in the company of a frontier army man." "That, then, is your robber castle, I suppose." "I rule there, Madam," he said simply.
"Over thrall and guest ?" "Over all who come there, Madam." "I've heard of the time," she went on icily, "when this country was younger, how the _seigneurs_ who held right under the old French kings claimed the law of the high, low and middle justice.

Life, death, honor, all lay in their hands--in the hands of individuals.
But I thought those times past.

I thought that this river was different from the St.Lawrence.

I thought that this was a republic, and inhabited by men.

I thought the South had gentlemen--" "You taunt me, my dear lady, my dear girl.


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