Everybody is pleased to have that man's notice.
He's full of pomp and circumstance and self complacency and bad grammar, and at table he is Sir Oracle and when he opens his mouth not any dog in the kennel barks.

The other person is a policeman at the capitol-building.

He represents the government.

The deference paid to these two men is not so very far short of that which is paid to an earl in England, though the method of it differs.

Not so much courtliness, but the deference is all there.
Yes, and there is obsequiousness, too.
It does rather look as if in a republic where all are free and equal, prosperity and position constitute rank..