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0060 Tibet and Turkestan : vol.1
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attendants chant, they stumble across the rails,
stolid, apparently unmoved; a few friends, smiling
faintly, follow the pair with significant, but not joy-
ous glances. Verily your Russian peasant is a mas-
ter in concealing his emotions—if he has any. Nay,
but he surely has emotions of sorts; for this railway
chapel would not otherwise minister to people
shaken from their homes, and the young peasants
would not have demanded the priestly blessing on a
venture to which they are invited by Mother Nature,
who wants another crop, and another, and another
for her perennial devouring.