To return thither, were it but for a few days, to renew the social link with the inhabited world, to establish a communication between their native land and their island, then to pass the longest, perhaps the best, portion of their existence in this colony, founded by them, and which would then be dependent on their country, was this a dream impossible to realize?
Regresar a él, aunque no fuese más que por algunos días, reanudar el lazo social con el mundo habitado, establecer una comunicación entre su patria y su isla y pasar después la mayor parte y la mejor quizá de su existencia en aquella colonia fundada por ellos y que pasaría a depender de la metrópoli, ¿era quizá un sueño irrealizable?