Excerpt from Turkey in Transition
And smoothly-rolling equipage; a string of skeleton pack-horses, bending under the weight of newly-slain carcases, breaks impudently into a prancing, foaming cavalcade of gaudy guardsmen; and the semi-naked beggar treads placidly on the reverend toes of a purple-robed bishop.
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