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The speaker anticipates a long return to a foreign master's.

The speaker repeats long to stress the distance. The speaker supplies no destination, identity for the master, or account of an apprenticeship.

A single typed sentence alone on the page: 'It was going to be a long long way back to a foreign master's.'

The doubled 'long long' stretches the distance of a return, while 'a foreign master's' leaves unsaid whose house or service is meant. Set by itself on a blank sheet, the line reads like an opening or closing sentence being tried out.