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wn; their fathers’
grandfathers had always voted for the eldest son of Cumnor
Towersand following in the ancestral track every man-jack in the
place gave his vote to the liege lordtotally irrespective of such
chimeras as political opinion.
This was no unusual instance of the influence of the great
landowners over humbler neighbours in those days before
railwaysand it was well for a place where the powerful family
who thus overshadowed itwere of so respectable a character as
the Cumnors. They expected to be submitted toand obeyed; the
simple worship of the townspeople was accepted by the earl and
countess as a right; and they would have stood still in amazement
and with a horrid memory of the French sansculottes who were
the bugbears of their youthhad any inhabitant of Hollingford
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ventured to set his will or opinions in opposition to those of the
earl. Butyielded all that obeisancethey did a good deal for the
townand were generally condescendingand often thoughtful
and kind in their treatment of their vassals. Lord Cumnor was a
forbearing landlord; putting his steward a little on one side
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