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Chapter xxxiv. By Land and Sea.
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It mattered little to me to what port the vessel1 was bound. Go where I might, I knew that I was on my way to Mrs. Van Brandt. She had need of me again; she had claimed me again. Where the visionary hand of the child had pointed2, thither3 I was destined4 to go. Abroad or at home, it mattered nothing: when I next set my foot on the land, I should be further directed on the journey which lay before me. I believed this as firmly as I believed that I had been guided, thus far, by the vision of the child.
For two nights I had not slept — my weariness overpowered me. I descended5 to the cabin, and found an unoccupied corner in which I could lie down to rest. When I awoke, it was night already, and the vessel was at sea.
I went on deck to breathe the fresh air. Before long the sensation of drowsiness6 returned; I slept again for hours together. My friend, the physician, would no doubt have attributed this prolonged need of repose7 to the exhausted8 condition of my brain, previously9 excited by delusions10 which had lasted uninterruptedly for many hours together. Let the cause be what it might, during the greater part of the voyage I was awake at intervals11 only. The rest of the time I lay like a weary animal, lost in sleep.
When I stepped on shore at Rotterdam, my first proceeding
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proceeding
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consul
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cultivation
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briefly
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seamen
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twilight
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metropolis
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