Word: lauretz
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...Jonas Lauretz, mountaineer sawmiller, was a hard man and not a good one. A notable blasphemer, drunkard, cuckolder and seducer, he was a byword in the district, but his neighbors did not know the half of it. He beat his wife, crippled his son, tried to rape his daughter, kept them all in terrified submission. Only his daughter Sylvelie, a flower-on-the-dunghill type, regarded him without loathing. She escaped some of the family horror by working as house-servant and model to a famed old painter, who in gratitude left her a small fortune when he died. Because...
...young judge. Andi was engaged to an heiress, but his heart was not in it. After protracted and pressing arguments, Sylvelie let Andi persuade her to marry him. For a while their happiness was idyllic. Then, by a stroke of legal accident, the papers in the three-year-old Lauretz case came into Andi's hands for review. His lawyer's nose immediately smelt a rat; he hounded his family-in-law until they finally confessed the crime. But Sylvelie, innocent accessory after the fact, was legally implicated in the murder. After terrific struggles of conscience Andi took...
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