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In this and the next chapters I propose to attempt a sketch of the / way in which the tribes of the Goths lived, whether in the Empire of / Charlemagne or in our own island. And because the island story must / be of the greater interest to us, seeing that it is our own, I shall / try to describe the mode of life of the people there, and will ask / you to accept that description as giving the type or pattern of the / life on the Continent also.
The feudal system did not develop in England precisely as it / developed on the Continent of Europe.