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Originally Posted by stuartjmz
The idea of droit de seigneur pleases you, the promotion of passive inaction toward domestic violence, or both? I might have been able to give it an "of it's time" pass had the line been written in the 1820s, but in the 1920s it seems anachronistic in addition to repellent.
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No, the idea that his blood was stirred pleases me. He never acts on or even offers any violence nor *actual* droit de seigneur.
Nevermind, if you are determined not to like those books, then you aren't required to keep reading them. I read "Gaudy Night" first (where she makes up her mind) which may have colored my reading of the rest.