"
"Movin' everywhere," said my uncle. "I expect you're right.... It's a
big time we're in, George. It's a big Progressive On-coming Imperial
Time. This Palestine business--the daring of it.... It's, it's a
Process, George. And we got our hands on it. Here we sit--with our hands
on it, George. Entrusted.
"It seems quiet to--night. But if we could see and hear." He waved his
cigar towards Leatherhead and London.
"There they are, millions, George. Jes' think of what they've been up to
to-day--those ten millions--each one doing his own particular job. You
can't grasp it. It's like old Whitman says--what is it he says? Well,
anyway it's like old Whitman. Fine chap, Whitman! Fine old chap! Queer,
you can't quote him. ... And these millions aren't anything. There's
the millions over seas, hundreds of millions, Chinese, M'rocco, Africa
generally, 'Merica.... Well, here we are, with power, with leisure,
picked out--because we've been energetic, because we've seized
opportunities, because we've made things hum when other people have
waited for them to hum.
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