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So that it was natural for Miss Grammont and Sir Richmond to
ask: "What are we to do with such types as father?" and to
fall into an idiom that assumed a joint enterprise. They had
agreed by a tacit consent to a common conception of the world
they desired as a world scientifically ordered, an immense
organization of mature commonsense, healthy and secure,
gathering knowledge and power for creative adventures as yet
beyond dreaming. They were prepared to think of the makers of
the Avebury dyke as their yesterday selves, of the stone age
savages as a phase, in their late childhood, and of this
great world order Sir Richmond foresaw as a day where dawn
was already at hand. And in such long perspectives, the
states, governments and institutions of to-day became very
temporary-looking and replaceable structures indeed. Both
these two people found themselves thinking in this fashion
with an unwonted courage and freedom because the other one
had been disposed to think in this fashion before. Sir
Richmond was still turning over in his mind the happy mutual
release of the imagination this chance companionship had
brought about when he found himself back again at the
threshold of the Old George.
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