... "would have cast the best man-at-arms out of his saddle;- these days, however, Urfried is subject to the command of every groom. Urfried tells Rebecca how her youthful beauty was twice as great as the looks of the Jewess herself. According to the old hag, she had a powerful position in Front de ... hag is more than capable of great evil; her disdain foreshadows the possibility of her causing harm to someone later in the book. Urfried shows Rebecca little pity or mercy because the hag was shown no mercy as a young women. Her harsh life has made her very hard and bitter in ... her premat...

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... boy of fourteen, the hard working young scholar, the young lawyer in backwoods Virginia, and the young diplomat in Paris. Jefferson suffered the hard times of youth. His first love, Rebecca Burwell, ditched him for a fellow student. In 1768 he offered love to Betsey Walker, the attractive wife of a friend who was away on political business. As a middle-aged single he ... , considerable paradox, and plenty of heftier books. The author is a longtime senior editor of American Heritage magazine, makes Jefferson humanly understandable and handily summarizes his accomplishment and imperfection...

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