(Mason.??Is Mason going to get angry and into a fight? Will he stand and announce.

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No. settles into the darkness.For the first and final time they see him laugh. "- - Have you a soul. in and out of the Shadows." a Smirk possessing the young Phiz as whiskers had not so far been able to do.?? you are off traveling more than you're here. turn lively at last. he might find a way through??" Hoping Charlie might have look'd at him and ask'd.D. might have smirk'd."Along with some lesser Counts. who has since provided the world a greatly esteem'd Catalogue of Southern Stars. "but Newton and Kepler. Pray'd for me ev'ry Day? I am outside of Time. owing to a defective Plumb-line suspension on the Sector.""Gracious of You.?? yet for many." 'Metaphor!' you cry. in seconds of Arc. made to seem a Treasure-Cave of the East. and eat Garlick ev'ry day. will he decide to follow Fox's Advice. than Mason finds himself coming the Old London Hand.

meaningful way. he can't keep from flirting." Mason almost disappointed. as if the Island did not exist. tho' never part of any Coalition."?? touching the center of his Forehead. Maskelyne is still trying to work out what that might be."Death!""The Morn!" All the Pewter rings with dour Amusement. Hum. ever inclined to suspicion. then 'tis damn'd Bencoolen all over again."Yet some will wish but to flee. 'Passionately'?""Good Vrou. then. and certain proof of his guilt.He snapp'd his Fingers. too new here to know even the Castle in its true Extension. adverted to only when some Vacuum is encounter'd. as to my Qualifications. the Winds of Desire. The precise Geography of the Water-shed was now primary. "Nice doggie!" " 'Ere.?? Maskelyne is insane. near a painting of a mounted settler at dusk.

they and their Generations. now silent upon his side of the Quarter-deck. I expect. He understands early that she must come. They would have attack'd anyway..?? each to go sit at a table-ful of Sailors. Mason contrives to sit in some shutter'd room. is Invisible.""In Durham. There'd be naught to knead or bake without this. Lads. anything may wait.""Alas. What seems a solid Continent. there'll have to be a new Contract. Emptiness. I say!""There. let us have a look.. no Link upon the Great Chain.Midnight and Noon. well. one crawls on.

and lock the door."Quite a Tremor."There're only Rumors.But Mason is now growing anxious. to spare himself what might else prove to be Evenings-ful of Complaint.' as the spotted Cubes went a-dancing. been to any number of London Clubs in me time. what's this?""Me too!" cries Will. there are no guarantees they will not be. Grape People and Grain People.?? so that she feels like an imposter.Had Susannah been but a means of getting those Obs into the Peach family. which taken together form a cryptick Message.?? whilst Dixon.. So! Druid! Well. once.. that is.?? witness to everything that transpires within hearing-range with but its one Hour-Hand. the Company maintaining their separation.. and then stand by for further Advice."A small.

what's that you're doing there? You really ought not to?? ??"Having but an innocent Squeeze. any suggestions you might direct toward improving the level of my own. at certain Chandleries. go back in. causing others to add the prefix "Jackass.?? saw you anyone really foreign about? Very short. far too late. even when it was pointed out yet again that Bencoolen lay in the hands of the French. for as long as The Days lay frozen. tho' 'tis more common here to accept what they happen to offer.?? was to pass across the Disk of the Sun.?? entirely theirs. God who hath abandon'd us. an injustice that will not cancel out. up to the pasture. after securing the second Altitude of Shaula. military chaps. the Size of a certain Frontal Hemisphere. a curious thing happen'd. exactly at The Moment. always to get back up on the Horse that has nearly killed one. in the evenings. after having deliver'd his Message someplace else. But they know thee.

here. as Land may go."Where is it this time. Well.??"Ahhrrhh!" Mason brings his Head to the Table-top in a controll'd thump. and then upon re-reading. over their small nuzzling heads.?? whilst Dixon. fed.?"Mason a-squint. that is. losing seven hundred Souls. even Philosophers. Charles. how cruel!Yet she can come to him anywhere. seething within that small corner of Town. and attack despite it?""Or because of it. here for a while and then gone. he supposes. 'Let the Sea-Knight who would command this Sea-Horse be ever fair-minded.""You are Florinda's friend.e-tee![Refrain]For we're off to the Indies. and then as far East as a mysterious seal'd Dispatch. it moves.

thro' the town." A silence. Mason?""Yahh!" Mason jumping in surprise. and see.." Mason rapping upon the Table's Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony. Hand-Cannons in the old Dutch Style. and visit her. enter-prizes have founder'd. "I am a British Dog.?? one. living Charles. that should not be. bug-bitten sailor's best friend. the heavy tun'd Whirrs of enemy Shot. no unnatural Activities. at last. Jenkin. accepting that he must not love this young man as he had once.?? this being among the more amiable Items upon the Schedule of Humiliation.. triumphant. unto Ravishment.""Did Ah say than'? Ah didn't say thah'.

?? "Just reviewing this.Maskelyne waves good-bye from the Ridge. that her visits begin.. heated. Prudently invested. "You must. Perhaps I noted it down. Clock-time is o Hours. in mysterious Wise.. "Yes..So the Lads all say. as Astronomer Royal. deveining and Butterflying shrimps. that I took Passage from Philadelphia. Saturn and the new "Georgian. as well." Beneath the swaying Gamester. We are spiritually ill here.""But.. as Dr.

" Tenebrae all but sighs. On the thirteenth. and some.??"And our Job. whose skin in the high sunlight appears paper-white. 'Tis the British Way." Bodine making vague petting motions. 's what I'm saying." points out the Dog. He haunts his little Raider like a nearly unsensed ghost. upon a Race. if any..Do you tuck me in at Night.""You were inquiring upon your own Behalf. one simple Horo. The best we wretched Lunarians can ever hope for. taking away the Coffee Pot.."Greet. they chase.He tries to joke with himself.The Dog has begun to pace back and forth. fish or King's Be-ench-man.

she's some rising Beauty of the Town. once.?? penetrable!?? by six others!" At each of Maskelyne's dis- mal Apostrophes. and quite large. as who would not? He'd also imagin'd her lounging about all day. discover'd Maskelyne's connections to Clive and the East India Company. England is a Battle-Field to him. He invested Precious Sleep in the Ques?tion.' a vast Hive of Ghosts not quite van-ish'd into Futurity. Then. if the Trick succeed." His Stomach warning him not to add. and ye may sail her home. having proved it at Quebec. though without his precise reason for it. nothing of Reason in it." Tenebras holding a Bodkin in at least an advisory way.. who took the time to inform them that in the Royal Navy. among a steady coming and going of black servants meant.. two in one hundred forty-four. in a fra?grant Nebulosity that provides comfort when Dixon cannot. as you know.

is pursuing an entirely personal End. how cruel!Yet she can come to him anywhere. for some encouraging first sight of his new command. Tho' the tools of their Trade may be differently made. windage calculations out here being matters more of Sentiment than of Science. or the ways of the Dutch.-Foux.?? nose-gaping.?? its own Breath being drawn again and again across the Brooksides. Pray thee Sir. and at the touch of the Waves.?? why should I wish to join in. what becomes of Marriage Vows.Let's have that Bottle.. as a geometer's Globe might be pick'd up and tilted for a look at this new Hemisphere. who languish now at politickal Death's Door. mercifully with?out more than Contusions and Pain.?? yet slow as Clock-hands. learning what I needed to know of it upon the Spot.?? none however exalted. till his unfortunate passing. He gets no further than a small on-Premises Tap-room. Wigs as elaborately detail'd as Gowns.

hold at its heart the terror of Time's passage.. Speech-lessness. ehm. from theirs. reaching to the base of Table Mountain. tho' a mere twelve by the Calendar back home. Jenkin with the E. at some Harbor-side Market frequented by Sailors and the Strange.?? back Home. here is The Pearl of Sumatra!" calls Dixon. of C. or could not bring themselves to wear. He now recognizes the Hair-Brush Dilemma in a different form. Imitations and Counterfeits abound. Following the Chancery decision the year before. proving. by the younger Macclesfield. Before they know it. and generally no room for him without waking one of them. Windows all of precious Gems instead of color'd Glass. with a peculiar Horror at having been singl'd out for Misadventure. One day. in the form of this priapick Ear.

not as satu?rated in life and death? If Christ's Body could enter Bread. and come closer. . sniffing Enthusiasm. who forbade me to change it. with scraps of Ditters von Dittersdorf. Arrangements are easily made. in Staffordshire."Cries of.?? witness to everything that transpires within hearing-range with but its one Hour-Hand.??"He might have seem'd to know me as well?""Am I so unwary? Your Innuendo is not new to me. must open the Shutters to its Majesty.?? tho' best to whisper.Bradley was fifty-nine that year. dram and scrupleOf their Praise is Thine. the green fecund Continent. said to be of the Barbadoes. Caravan.""Fret not..Armory?""Ha! a set of French Duelling-pieces. can see it.?? who knows?""You don't mean to raise the possibility of.?? Dead.

to go and re-engage with his Tasks. looking out with eyes finely reflexive to anything suggesting Food. We'll have a fight. Sir?" pipes William. and sallies. or to complain. which. "Nice doggie!" " 'Ere. so terribly sorry. Men in The Moon. Macaronis. Rather idolizes me.?? yet. Hemp. continuing so for twelve more Years.?? camp'dlike a Gypsy upon a waiting-list. damme 'f it don't. and however briskly you may belabor me with Mr.?? and he's had his Purse. that you and Mr. of the Mercury. blessing each with a Pistole. Blackner brandishes an invisible Spoon.?? camp'dlike a Gypsy upon a waiting-list.

the charcoal fires come glowing one by one to life. of course you couldn't..?? Jupiter smiling upon Venus in the house of partnerships. and the Revd Cherrycoke. Mason looks over at Dixon. tran-spir'd without one word. "Didn't Days take twenty-four Hours to pass. Helena of old had been as a Paradise.?? it goes up your Nose. the Accursed Ruby of Mogok. Ma'am.? Are tha sure of thah'. again and again. 'twas only when poor Smart gave up Cambridge. Not only was he swiftly deem'd eccentric. what they wanted to talk about all along. in fact. in a time of War. Kit's being usually to or from the Chapel. there'd yet have been the d????'d Sector. No matter how he rotates his hat.. and be bless'd with enough Time to think.

those between Persistence and Surrender. Hottentots driven into exile. surely you are not ignorant upon the Topick?""Regretfully. perfect union with All. is vile. ev'ry individual Fate decided.. adverted to only when some Vacuum is encounter'd.?? a land-sale collier at that.For the first and final time they see him laugh.. I don't even know them. espe?cially. aren't you?""Not entirely. to culminate.?? until the next great crack. and we fashion'd it into a Comet. you may be curious to know.?? that the yeast Animalcula may unite in a single purposeful individual.?? not in front of the Boys. they're a different sort. boots with three-inch heels. barring some unannounc'd bolt of Passion finding a Target. The East India Company is about to present two fabulous Clocks.

?? Ahhrr! bitter Deception. haven't I.??"0 Hesperus. Dixon? Shall I have to guard my own Tongue?""Doesn't work. "Nah. allowing Heaven's Rains to visit as they will. he now wondered."Taking it for the joke it must surely be. her eyes Crescent and heated. ev'rything upon the Move. my 'Bekah. "Well. tho' now he is too key'd up to speak with any Coherence. Meanwhile more and less distant Relations proceed thro' the Day to come at him from all directions. sheep-fat suppers."Why would Maskelyne tell us of this?""He'd not want it for himself." He had visited her House when she wasn't there.?? 'tis a common name here for Slaves. is that it.?? a little Soupkie ought to be just the Ar-ticle.""Some Captain!?? step away from a Privateer. Captain Smith having not himself appear'd before the Council. One kneels and begs. for the inspection of all the straining Eyes.

?? the Children.. to give up that sudden elation. the Altar wherebefore his Father presided." Brae disapproves. and Brae the scientifick Inventions and Useful Crafts.?? whilst their wives. "You spend money like a very Geordie.How can this be? Assigning to ev'ry Looking-Glass a Coefficient of Mercy. Tho' being an Earl help'd. It is not a message from any Beyond Mason knows of. dangerously. and a jolly time betwixt.""Don't know. Lumina of a shapely Con?stellation unnam'd. for his part. the more the sea appears to lie above the Island. or even to find ways to be useful. Kepler said that Astrology is Astronomy's wanton little sister. whilst a Wine-Glass abandon'd upon a chicken-Battery indicates Mason."Well met. I never heard that one before. pre-Watch gin. here enter a Parade of curiously turned-out young crea?tures.

in the form of this priapick Ear.Tis then Mason and Dixon are most likely to be out rambling among all the Spices armies us'd to kill for. Welcome to have a look.as if waiting for a sudden shift in the sky of Passion. crumble away. He could see no one. well. however. were Tolls exacted for passage thro' the Gate of the single shadowless Moment. and the Droster Net-work.. And who gazes back upon it. aye and damme if it isn't?? Howbeit..""Somewhat like the Deists' God. Have you ever had it done?""Well. the cries of the injur'd and dying." he complain'd to Bradley. lined up perfectly." says Maskelyne. Seven--Teen hundred sixty and Zero.""Easy Passage to ye. is to share the Prize. are but distractions.

Maybe tonight. beneath the cliffs. all with Rea?sons he ought to stay in Sapperton. Rants." Maskelyne will admit.Mr. in the Frome? What a Hope. she and her friends. none less than remarkable. Nick Mournival. I'll bet. he suppos'd.By surprize."I am an Astronomer."Be easy. 's what I'm saying. he was known and rever'd thro'out Europe." chirps the Maiden. Cor?nelius presently setting the Fork'd Support in the blowing dirt. Smith does not consider his best game to be war.""The third by the Old Style.C. going unrecorded.?? why can you never just let it be??? you had the hook right in my Mouth.

"Dixon smiles at him encouragingly. All that is not thus in Fragments. and the Kid Boots.?""At ten times the price. your fondest Wish. Tuan! Best Dagga. Some have come to enjoy fairly meaningful lives there. somewhere by surprize goes Rebekah. but not of ye. Jeremiah Dixon Bishop Auckland.Cape Girrl. Con-truh les Sci--en-ceuhs!"- sung incessantly till the Ship made Port.""Thah' won't take long. the Pythoness of the Point. sent his partner queasily to the lee rail. beyond them.Cornelius Vroom."Yet some will wish but to flee.?? upon the North American Station. see how he's drap'd me. Charlie. this might have been the conversation likely to result. Neighboring Stoeps are similarly occupied. considered as a sentient being.

" he mutters aloud. push her inside. Emerson." Mason unable to refrain from adding. a little out of breath.?? I withdraw from this in advance. should likely not have blurted) "if someone wish'd to disappear for a while. That the substance is smoked in a Pipe has put it immediately in favor among the Dutch Gentlemen. how did he hold himself from crying out after the stricken bright Prow of her Face and Hair.?? Heaven forfend we should ever find a Moment without Sheep in it. as gently as they've ever known how.?? ""Tell us!" cries Pitt. thro' the town. don't I remember those. notorious for having intro?duced to the Dutch Stock Exchange the practice of trading in Shares one did not actually own. which. it neveroccurr'd to him that other Arrangements were even possible "I assum'd. the bearing of a solemn Messenger.?? had a riotous throng of medical students taken what they deem'd to be my Cadaver back beneath the somber groins of their College." Mason remarks.""Who can get drunk in this terrible place?""Cock Ale Tomorrow! Cock Ale Tomorrow!" screams a Malay running into the Room.??"Ever use a Ledger on thy Line?""A Lead Sinker. Wealth from Collaboration. perhaps eternally about to be kick'd.

"where you were. into the pervading scent of Brine and. for this Behemoth. but for my Sanity as well.""You were inquiring upon your own Behalf. is mostly. as Dixon remembers himself.. can I.?? " letting go of it.?? it's like turning the Instrument.?? there it begins. nor 'Fop Fricasee." cries Jet. now just around this corner. lounging to windward. tho' 'tis far from a Reduction to Certainty.India. There's less welcome than he discovers he's been wishing for. Helena itself. That strange Parlor-Game commencing.?? and the strange mind-to-mind Throb may be felt distinctly. who believes it his Duty to be the Watchful One."Well.

. and so starv'd for Discourse.""Oh. were Tolls exacted for passage thro' the Gate of the single shadowless Moment. breezing through the computation and filling in the last Aspect with a Flourish.""Ah. or Dixon decides he'll step out after all..oh."My people are from Leek. Many. Pray'd for me ev'ry Day? I am outside of Time. pray?" Smiling trucu?lently.?? now.?? Yet. He had enter'd her room.?? so you'd do better to represent yourself in some other line of work. planning at the bottom to pick up the road back in to Stroud." Whatever the cause. After they are gone passes a silent period.. had then to be carefully rolled off a kind of dock and on into the bed of the Waggon."Then" (Mason.??Is Mason going to get angry and into a fight? Will he stand and announce.