"No-one would have believed in the earliest years of the twenty-first century that Dover affairs were being watched from the timeless worlds of Europe. No-one could have dreamed that we were being scrutinized, as Frenchman with a telescope studies creatures that swarm and multiply across the stretch of water. Few men even considered the possibility of life in East Kent. And yet, across the Straits of Dover, minds immeasurably superior to ours regarded England with envious eyes; and slowly, and surely, they drew their plans against us."
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