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P. 121: "He belonged, not to this scum which clung to the walls of a rich man's house; not did he belong to the rich man's house. He belonged to the land and he could not live with any fullness untill he felt the land under his feet and followed a plow in the springtime and bore a scythe in his hand at harvest."

" He lived in the rich city as alien as a rat in a rich man's house that is fed on scraps thrown away, and hides here and there and is never a part of the real life of the house."