Excerpt from The Sowers: 'Ah, but a Man's Reach Should Exceed His Grasp or What's a Heaven For?' The speaker finished his remark with a Short laugh. He was stout. His name was Karl Steinmetz, and it is a name well known in the government of Tver to this day. He spoke jerkily, as stout men do when they ride, and when he had laughed his good-natured, half-cynical laugh, he closed his lips beneath a huge grey moustache. So far as one could judge from the action of a square and deeply indented chin, his mouth was expressive at that time and possibly at all times - Oi a humorous resignation. N 0 reply was vouchsafed to him, and Karl Steinmetz bumped along on his little Cossack horse, which was stretched out at a gallop. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.