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One of Our Conquerors

CHAPTER XI
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Have you heard them talk?
It happened in the year 1400: it's alive to them as if it were yesterday.

Old History is as dead to the English as their first father.
They beg for the privilege of pulling the forelock to the bearers of the titles of the men who took their lands from them and turn them to the uses of cattle.

The Saxon English had, no doubt, a heavier thrashing than any people allowed to subsist ever received: you see it to this day; the crick of the neck at the name of a lord is now concealed and denied, but they have it and betray the effects; and it's patent in their Journals, all over their literature.

Where it's not seen, another blood's at work.

The Kelt won't accept the form of slavery.


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