It is Machiavellian, in the sense that it revolves around the question of how to maintain power.

Amos′s grin widened, “You mean the man was drunk?” Mathewson laughed out loud, “He was full as a goog but you said it, laddie, I din′t!”

Of the Procuratresses. Two Sisters shall be appointed to take care of the store room. They must obtain from the other Sisters in office whatever the Community is likely to need, such as meat, fish, lard, eggs and such like.

An extraordinary joie de vivre had come over them all as soon as the shaky feeling departed from their legs.