[He takes note of the young man's inebriated state, but he would perhaps address this later. He contemplates the question for a long moment. Here he supposes that, although he is never truly free of his past, its grip has loosened: France in her entirety is no more, and those who would know his crime are tentatively suspended in slumber. But here too are dangers of a different sort.]
I was content with my life. But were my daughter to awaken, I should find it difficult to say whether I would prefer to be there or here.
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I was content with my life. But were my daughter to awaken, I should find it difficult to say whether I would prefer to be there or here.