Is this translation correct ? Today, I was reading an English translation of Herman Hesse's "The Glass Bead Game" and saw the next sentence: "Knecht, of course, quickly imitated this circumspection and thereby remained at a remove from the industrious old man" While I can can grasp the meaning of the sentence, "remained at a remove" sounds a little bit unnatural, more like a poor translation rather than archaic(or very formal) English. Can someone enlighten me on this ? Thanks!Later edit: After searching on google I found some 18.000 entries for "remained at a remove", many of them written in a very formal style. So I must assume that it is correct after all.