ahead was visible the moderately white cliffs of England, beyond which
lay his occupation and his home, his true mental environment, and
native aspiration. He experienced now in all its fullness the feeling
that had been with him with such tragic brevity from time to time
during those years. This last passage of the Channel was, this time,
real escape. The Crime at Vanderlynden’s was behind him. He had got
away from it at last.
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