The Headsman:

or, The Abbaye des Vignerons.

A Tale

By J. Fenimore Cooper.


"How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds
Makes deeds ill done."


Complete in One Volume.


1860.




Introduction.



Early in October 1832, a travelling-carriage stopped on the summit of that
long descent where the road pitches from the elevated plain of Moudon in
Switzerland to the level of the lake of Geneva, immediately above the
little city of Vévey. The postilion had dismounted to chain a wheel, and
the halt enabled those he conducted to catch a glimpse of the lovely