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Two men, the one an architect and the other an archaeologist, met on / the steps of the great house at Prior's Park; and their host, Lord / Bulmer, in his breezy way, thought it natural to introduce them. It / must be confessed that he was hazy as well as breezy, and had no / very clear connection in his mind, beyond the sense that an / architect and an archaeologist begin with the same series of / letters. The world must remain in a reverent doubt as to whether he / would, on the same principles, have presented a diplomatist to a / dipsomaniac or a ratiocinator to a rat catcher. He was a big, fair, / bull-necked young man, abounding in outward gestures, unconsciously / flapping his gloves and flourishing his stick.
"You two ought to have something to talk about," he said, / cheerfully. "Old buildings and all that sort of thing; this is / rather an old building, by the way, though I say it who shouldn't. I / must ask you to excuse me a moment; I've got to go and see about the / cards for this Christmas romp my sister's arranging. We hope to see / you all there, of course. Juliet wants it to be a fancy-dress / affair -- abbots and crusaders and all that. My ancestors, I suppose, / after all."