We're going to take you to sort of a feudal lord.
On the first lines of the book is the line "My old man would sit there like a feudal lord."
Today I'm like a feudal lord in this strange country.
This village would have been the seat of a small feudal lord in the old days.
It is the sort of thing feudal lords were once expected to do.
The later was the feudal lord until 1843, when the family went bankrupt.
The beginning of the book contains the line "My old man would sit there like a feudal lord."
Administration at county level was undertaken by the feudal lords.
He fell in love with a girl, already engaged to one of the feudal lords.
With this, he was able to reestablish himself as a feudal lord.