[Beatrice by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookBeatrice CHAPTER X 8/25
Elizabeth also listened with evident approval, but Beatrice looked pained. "Don't get angry, father," she said; "perhaps he will pay after all. It is bad to take the law if you can manage any other way--it breeds so much ill blood." "Nonsense, Beatrice," said her sister sharply.
"Father is quite right. There's only one way to deal with them, and that is to seize their goods.
I believe you are socialist about property, as you are about everything else.
You want to pull everything down, from the Queen to the laws of marriage, all for the good of humanity, and I tell you that your ideas will be your ruin.
Defy custom and it will crush you.
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