She was anchored to that seat by the accumulated indignities of days gone by and the boundless aspirations of generations yet unborn. She was a victim of both the forces of history and the forces of destiny. She had been tracked down by the Zeitgeist—the spirit of the time.

Oh! Cousin Clarence, he exclaimed, there is a Yankee peddler here; the longest, lathiest, queerest slab-sided being you ever saw in all your life.

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But alas, the bright civilization of the East produced by several millennia vanished amid the medieval age into which Europe as a whole was plunged. This, chiefly because of its interdisputes and then because of the barbarian onslaughts on their countries.