feud-letters

Updated: May 5, 2025

Feud-letters or challenges had been made unlawful for ten years, and was not Adlerstein at feud with the world? Nor did Eberhard look on the submission with the sullen rage and grief that his father felt in bringing himself to such a declension from the pride of his ancestors. What the young Baron heard up stairs was awakening in him a sense of the poorness and narrowness of his present life.

Charlotte Mary Yonge - The Dove in the Eagle's Nest