"
Panna had never made this distinction, because she was not in the habit
of analyzing her feelings. But when her father uttered the word, she
reflected a moment, and then said: "Perhaps so."
Yet she felt that it really was not vengeance which she desired, and
she instantly added:
"No, Father, you are not exactly right, it is not revenge. I should no
longer be enraged against Herr von Abonyi if I could believe that the
law, which punished what he has done with six months' imprisonment,
would for instance have punished you also with six months, if you had
committed the same crime. But it cannot be the law, or they would not
have shot Marczi for his little offence, you would not have been
imprisoned three months for a few innocent blows. It is easy to tell
me that the case is different. Or is there perhaps a different law for
peasants and for gentlemen? If that is so, then the law is wicked and
unjust, and the peasants must make their own."
The old man did not notice the errors and lack of logic in Panna's
words, but he was probably startled by her gloomy energy.
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