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The Sowers

CHAPTER IX
19/20

In each house, to each of our friends, we are unconsciously different in some particular.

One man holds us in awe, and we unconsciously instil that feeling.

Another considers us a buffoon, and, lo! we are exceedingly funny.
Paul and Steinmetz knew that the people around them in Osterno were somewhat like the dumb and driven beast.

These peasants required overawing by a careful display of pomp--an unrelaxed dignity.

The line of demarcation between the noble and the peasant is so marked in the land of the Czar that it is difficult for Englishmen to realize or believe it.


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