Excerpt from Bertha, Vol. 2 of 3: A Romance of the Dark Ages
Such was the custom of the times, and, but too frequently, that custom was made subservient to the worst of purposes; for those city fortresses were often used as the refuge places of the vilest malefactors - of wicked nobles who purchased from the king the permission to indulge in crime, by being themselves the ready instruments of his vices.
The fortress of Frauenstein, which the reader is now invited to enter, was not devoted to any evil object.
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