Iwent, therefore, to the shelf where the histories stand and took down one of the latest, professor trevelyan's history of england. . a very queer, composite being thus emerges. imaginatively [a woman] is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. she pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. she dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. which sentence best states the idea that this excerpt to develop