There is one king over the whole country, and there are written laws by which everyone, high and low alike, are governed.

So you see, no one has to carry arms.

All disputes are settled by the law, and there is peace everywhere; for as nothing would be settled by fighting, and the law would punish any one, however much in the right he might be, who fought, there is no occasion at all for weapons.

It is a good plan, for you see no one, however rich, can tyrannise over others; and were the greatest noble to kill the poorest peasant, the law would hang him, just the same as it would hang a peasant who killed a lord.
"And now, boys, you had better be off to bed.

Your cousin has had a long day of it, and I have no doubt he will be glad to do so.