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“So was it all for England, then?” he resumed. “There was a time, of course there was. But who’s England? Which England? England all alone, a citizen of nowhere? I’m European,
Peter. If I had a mission—if I was ever aware of one beyond our business with the enemy, it was to Europe. If I had an unattainable ideal, it was leading Europe out of her darkness towards a new age of reason. I have it still.”

“We are therefore faced with the ludicrous Shakespearean premise whereby the ghosts of the two victims of a fiendish Circus plot rise up to accuse us in the form of their offspring.”