The Strange Story of Rab Ráby

Name: The Strange Story of Rab Ráby
Author: Jókai, Mór

Jókai, Mór

Hungary -- History -- Joseph II, 1780-1790 -- Fiction

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 CHAPTER I.              1
 CHAPTER II.             6
 CHAPTER III.           11
 CHAPTER IV.            16
 CHAPTER V.             27
 CHAPTER VI.            37
 CHAPTER VII.           46
 CHAPTER VIII.          50
 CHAPTER IX.            58
 CHAPTER X.             64
 CHAPTER XI.            70
 CHAPTER XII.           82
 CHAPTER XIII.          86
 CHAPTER XIV.           96
 CHAPTER XV.           104
 CHAPTER XVI.          112
 CHAPTER XVII.         130
 CHAPTER XVIII.        141
 CHAPTER XIX.          150
 CHAPTER XX.           159
 CHAPTER XXI.          173
 CHAPTER XXII.         178
 CHAPTER XXIII.        188
 CHAPTER XXIV.         197
 CHAPTER XXV.          204
 CHAPTER XXVI.         219
 CHAPTER XXVII.        224
 CHAPTER XXVIII.       234
 CHAPTER XXIX.         237
 CHAPTER XXX.          249
 CHAPTER XXXI.         255
 CHAPTER XXXII.        259
 CHAPTER XXXIII.       268
 CHAPTER XXXIV.        278
 CHAPTER XXXV.         286
 CHAPTER XXXVI.        289
 CHAPTER XXXVII.       296
 CHAPTER XXXVIII.      301
 CHAPTER XXXIX.        308
 CHAPTER XL.           317
 CHAPTER XLI.          324
 CHAPTER XLII.         328
 CHAPTER XLIII.        335
 CHAPTER XLIV.         339
 CHAPTER XLV.          345
 CHAPTER XLVI.         349
 CHAPTER XLVII.        352
 CHAPTER XLVIII.       357
 CHAPTER XLIX.         360
 CHAPTER L.            364




INTRODUCTION.


Now it is not because the double name of "Rab Ráby" is merely a pretty
bit of alliteration that the author chose it for the title of his story,
but rather because the hero of it was, according to contemporary
witnesses of his doings, named Ráby, and in consequence of these same
doings, earned the epithet "Rab" ("culprit"). How he deserved the
appellation will be duly shown in what follows.

A hundred years ago, there was no such thing as a lawyer, in the modern
sense, in the city of Buda-Pesth. Attorneys indeed there were, of all
sorts, but a lawyer who was at the public service was not to be found,
and when a country cousin came to town, to look for someone who should
"lie for money," he sought in vain.

Why this demand for lawyers could not be supplied in Buda-Pesth a
hundred years back may best be explained by briefly describing the two
cities at that epoch.

For two cities they really were, with their respective jurisdictions.
The Austrian magistrate persistently called Pesth "Old Buda," and the
Rascian city of Buda itself, "Pesth," but the Hungarians recognised
"Pestinum Antiqua" as Pesth, and for them, Buda was "the new city."

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The Strange Story of Rab Ráby

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