No, confound her, her intellect was good, she had brains enough, but her training made her an ass - that is, from a many-centuries-later point of view. To kill the page was no crime - it was her right; and upon her right she stood, serenely and unconscious of offense. She was a result of generations of training in the unexamined and unassailed belief that the law which permitted her to kill a subject when she chose was a perfectly right and righteous one.

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