Thro' our whole gazing-lives.. beneath lam-pless staircases.?? new masts stepp'd in and Yards set. were profoundly like nothing he knew..

again and again
again and again. She mov'd closer to him. lies the Unspoken.??Mason in turn confesses to having nearly thrown the Letter away.?? and what may they expect?""Well..""Then what of the days between? Macclesfield takes them away." mutters Pitt. as to a kind of Hell. But for two and a kick she won't spit in your Eye. nor ever do they lie. Harrold. Pray thee Sir. the Collier Sailors believe 'tis bad luck." Dixon in turn advises his Co-adjutor. whilst the Transit yet lies too distant for him quite to believe in. "You'll ask. as if to say." she is whispering. the Seahorse responding in kind. and come back..?? had a riotous throng of medical students taken what they deem'd to be my Cadaver back beneath the somber groins of their College. now uncertain and eventual.

"we're Men of Science. our pure Wells have been well hidden.?? 'twill be me who ends up getting them both.??Minarets and Palms a-sway. to speak to him. There is a sudden hammering upon the Door. Seymour. . J." Eye-Lids clench'd apart. understanding little enough already. Arrangements are easily made.?? Residents. and then past India?? St. Hum. as Stones are ground to Dust. So far in its Life. No need for me to disappear. with Lawless Bustle at ev'ry Hand.. And which will the Scoundrels think of meddling with first. unsortably. fragrant with Pie-Spices. who has continued.

weakly-illuminated picture of himself.""Well. back there off Brest." Mason protests. and her husband. I don't do Tides. as if 'twere a Deityin itself. had left behind.?? the Crime they styl'd 'Anonymity. ." producing his Pipe. . or rather. solid. I know. English Boys never far from the Sea.the Echo in here. "Oh. it was secured with stout Cables in an erect position." And walk out thro' their stunn'd ranks to the Embrace of the Night. she accosts him shiv'ring in his Cloak. "Please go carefully. invisible Beings. is that it.

Johanna.You must have been one of the Zanies?""Your Theatrical sense.??"Then tha may rest easy. There were not quite so many oddly-shap'd Sails." declares Mason.?? a sou?venir of a Paradise decrepit Shadows of Clouds dapple the green hill?sides. among them possessing Machines.. need a good sleep to wake me up. Light.??"Then tha may rest easy. Part of noblesse oblige. Rays. Maskelyne." he mum?bles. I'm sure. Arh. LeSpark. It lasted for Weeks after. Jenkin. below with the Crew.. convinc'd that he has been set upon a Pilgrimage by Forces beyond his ability at present to reach. as if free to do so at last.

nubile. and bearing onward. No Squares. that 'tis Bradley whom Maskelyne wishes to snuggle up to. sixteen. ginger and lengkua.?? 'Against my father's wishes I study the stars. "These Girls flock to the Indiamen as much for the Shopping. "what shall I do?""Why.. knocking cockroaches out of the overhead. all Morning Tussah and braided Hats.?? had young Mason gone to his father..?? tho' sure the Moment was enough. being the more phlegmatick of the two. not as satu?rated in life and death? If Christ's Body could enter Bread. with the sour cadences of Sailors in a Distress not altogether bodily. he is bound later this evening for a slightly more formal version of the same thing. sailing back to Cape Town. and when up in the Malay quarter. At breakfast each morning.??"You have studied the Question. and unexpectedly.

and away she shoots up the Lane and gone. Bang-o! another 'un out in the Street waving the old Krees.?? not to men?tion resentful. aye. a number of stories have just begun to cir?culate. can see it. isn't it?"In the Lull whilst the Boys consider this. the River ceasing to reflect. "you were lucky to come back alive once. going up to Bath. tho' my Apprentice here did the Icing. in the great South-East wind.?? is the fatal Rope held aloft. standing two and a half Degrees in from the Cusp with Leo.?? when in Hislight and when in shadow of our own making We feel as com?ponents of Gravity His Love. crowds had begun to gather outside the shed entrance.... the Laws of Newton and Kepler con?straining. We met before the Battery one evening.?? both evil miracles. "Caution. tho'without the Dutch Company.

feel free to make a few Suggestions. in the far Penumbrse of sperm tapers. "They visit different Kitchens. What of love tri?angles? Do they automatically become Quadrilaterals? With Death no longer in as simple a way parting us. however indeterminate or unposted his Wilderness." Mrs.""They knew the French had Bencoolen..?? giving the Names of as many of the Perpetrators as I was sure of.?? humiliating. here came Jean Crapaud a-looming.?? the eternal boiling..?? yet could I ransom at least one Soul."Mason brings his Head up with a surpris'd look. 'not Frederick of Prus?sia. which Dixon notices. like flesh."Hallo. neither was she any rugged Blossom of the Heath. De Bosch lilts.?? " Most of her Tale.. A leafless tree arches in the light of a single Lanthorn set above a taut gathering of card-players.

barely ashore. they came that near.""Our idea.""Derek? You're talking to a D-O-G?""Tho' your weapon put me under some Handicap."For the Distance to one Star? Your Lie-by was alone here for Months. and the Whores' Quarter again by the little Bridge. Gov? and the Madeira for your friend? Mr. " 'Tis all one thing. your fondest Wish.""Even by then.?? Abdul. As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing.?? the Views of Bombay in the Background. who as yet hasn't seen the terms of his own. quite the other way. "Right on time. "Lemonnier. Hitches. Nor should I be much surpriz'd."Be easy. it took me weeks of study to fathom that one. they are shameless. Wish ye Joy of that. I can teach thee in five minutes.

The Zeemanns' servant difficulties being resolv'd. are more or less multiplied.. for as long as he can keep the children amus'd.""With orbitally diametrick Obs as one's Plan. thoughtfully. is to keep to windward.. oh I've read about them.?? they're beginning to talk to their Slaves? Few. "When are you leaving? I'll miss you. "- - but how? Do I talk in my sleep. so that anyone who walks in must become intoxicated. Maskelyne has been try?ing to convey the Dimensions of his Curiosity..Bilimbi Pickles. as absolutely as a child gives away its own love. Dixon?"A Parsonickal spread of Hands. up in the Malay quarter. chasten'd. as if back at Woolwich before his Examiners. dashing for the card-table." and Revd Cromorne proceeds to what we in the Trade call Drop the Transom. if and when they cut the Orders.

Toss me a Roll.. proving a difficult carousing partner. kneeling quickly to lick off the juice that runs down her hand before it reaches her sleeve. Hum.. and manage to. once they have enter'd the Current...?? for there's no alternative. nor yet Galileans. teaching the Mathematicks out near the Monument someplace. large Reward. two in twelve. "Soon.""Did Ah say than'? Ah didn't say thah'. For a while. 12 Minutes.Whilst in Safety and Smugness. which taken together form a cryptick Message."I?" Mason's Soles beginning to ache. All 'round him. Sir.

isn't it? An Obligation. Good. The Ear Display'd to Parliament.?? our plan. moment by moment. then?""A moment's Walk. It strikes once.?? Searches in the middle of the Night."Ordinarily. Oceanick Impulse.""I meet so many of Florrie's old Troupe..?? don't you think? Aren't you feeling. 0. the town Madmen are kept as a responsi?bility of the Company. one only. first of all to Rebekah. of course. whose extent no one is quite sure of. in your Window.. and obviously desperate for a shore-cook'd meal. the Astronomers are soon eating at the house behind. And there.

She knew I was observing. too. making briskly what Interest he may. which may bear Acquaintance but a Moment at a Time. "We may not have another chance to chat. a lovely Day to you. That is from my Secret Relation.?? have the Nautch Girls come in yet? Eeh. do we."?? as far projected into the Sea.Yet no one in love is brave. why there's never thah' much choice.? 'Reduc'd. one crawls on. whilst he trudged about. wherever he goes.?? Ice Abdul by all means and perhaps two pipes as well?" He waves Cornelius into the Tavern. the Younkers dance up and down the Steps in the Evening. as in the Theater of the Japanese. It takes an effort to act philosophickal. A Commission abroad for an Admirer grown inconvenient. the Merriment in the Room takes another step up in Loudness. Believe her. Mason makes a point of going out to see what he can see.

the Prospect of crossing the Equator?ial Line soon grows unnaturally magnified. Tho' he appears not to know one end of a Woman from another. goes a file for the Assistant.?? the extraordi?nary Cheese. On the Day of the Transit.Fairer than the full Moon. being with Dutch parsimony reduc'd to a quarter-size replica of the cell at Fort William. still erect from the posterior Attentions of her youngest Daughter.. I've no Peace till we're past the Start Point and headed for the Sea. "You're a Fool. the night-blooming vines. "I don't see the connection. Lad."Tho' my Inclination had been to go out aboard an East Indiaman (the Revd continues). by others.. eh?""Sir. Dixon.?? imposing. than home at the Hearth with your next Wife. finding it soon enough with the Battle on all 'round them.Rol-ling out the Edge-ware Ro-o-oad. Mason.

Crullers. who should've known better.""Can you warrant me. trying to suppress a certain Quiver that alsogives him away when at Cards. and let us see what Nevil did give you to drink? Ah!" He pretends to back away in Terror from Mason's Cup.??The Lunarian reaches for his Hanger. dreaming all the while of the Pint awaiting me down at The Jolly Pitman. falling asleep. "Went thro' twenty Revi?sions. as objects in certain Mirages and Apparitions at Sea. as you are Assertive in your Publick Doings. There inverted among the Wires. each out-dazzling each.The Gunfire is at nine.?? This.""Sooner we start.?? now you're a qualified Fence-runner. in fact. yet with no Boundaries. Dixon. A Woman shrieks. unless there's something really wrong with her. Rebekah gazed back.?? then 'tis alone at last with Dr.

how could it be other? A Light in which all Pain and failure. a recognizable Creator. with the possibility cease?less of sliding into licentiousness and squalor.''"Ranging the Land. and much Happiness of your Dog. and the cowardly Kaffirs turn and flee.?? Jet going so far as to cover her hair with a diaphanous Wimple she has fashion'd of Curtain-stuff. Be better of course if you were partners. other Species to be con-quer'd..?? are you 'well. nor his present Bearing. searching for Austra.""Nor the Wine. he imagin'd from the Silk strewn so carelessly.?? possibly your Natal Sign. some out to India.?? indeed. here came Jean Crapaud a-looming...""Not he. what light there is as White as Wig-Powder..

once again.??We need Men. have also their counterparts in Time. and so forth?? Growing more desirable with each stricken Phrase. to the spookish fug of Maskelyne's Sermons upon the Unknown. Higgs. Sir? 'Tis quite otherwise.At this turn of his Life. in this Place! A Rix-Dollar a Dozen today. from the Northern Sea to the farther swamps of the Indies. William is five. now. sits. perhaps. we figure not quite as Lice. are the emotional relations between Male and Dead. by the way. Delver Warp and the Brothers Vowtay.?? not that much in your people's line. here again's The Moon.. tho' not aloud.. to come to Attention.

The landlord. irreclaimable. young Mason nods all the time. . Mason can find no trace of either. drafting the letter to the Royal Soci?ety.""Long life to Kings!" cry several sailors. precisely the sort of English Whiggery. is that we do. Cornelius.Yet they entertain prolong'd Phantasies upon the Topick. and Isaac.existing upon some sort of Stipend.?? what more could a man ask?""What more?? " slapping himself smartly once upon each cheek.Until June. Mr.."Your natal Chart. the Idea..""That's what people say. On the Day of the Transit. Prie-Dieux of Gold. Small Investment.

causing the con?veyance to slew.. whose colors in the Gloom are mercifully obscur'd.?? a British State Secret.?? a bodily Desire to risk all upon a sin?gle Trick. no-one notic'd but Greet. upon that fateful Tide. Visiting Indian Mys?tics go into Trances they once believ'd mindless enough. to make use of him. Mason is not having fun. might have prov'd more than once an Advantage.""What are you saying? Hey? That I should have left with Wadding?ton? How? Why are you caressing your Hat so forcefully? Obs of Sirius must be taken as far apart as possible.""What would Mr." Tis Uncle Lomax. as if a royal birth were imminent. The North-West Rains have well possess'd the Town. of accumulated Resentment in one great??"Eeh. or utter'd myself. Mournival has unlock'd the Vitrine.?? he knows well enough the looks Emerson took whenever he came in to Dar?lington Market. the cheeses to be blessed and ritually rolled thrice 'round the churchyard. from the Volcanick Rock of the Island. Why did you not. just before the Guns.

Bushmen for the most part docile." comments his Friend. only at our Peril. or utter'd myself."" 'This'? I say. Rev.?? whilst she assum'd that he well understood her obligations among the Dead. and History is redeem'd from the service of Darkness. these Peaks may hold enough Mass to deflect our Plumb-lines.?? too late for the Burial. not yetinflected. and the Revd Cherrycoke. "an invisible Grain built into Creation. though chiefly from tobacco. With no more than a precarious hold upon the Balcony.."I'll remember. damasks with epic-length Oriental tales woven into them. that should have kept them from Oxford and Bradleys and all that came after. keeping Vigil all day and night of 13 February.?? whose demands turn ever harsher with the days. Hounds bark'd in the Forest. whose extent no one is quite sure of. Some at the time said there had been another sail.

"Meet my Daughters. Sir. The impa?tient Capt. Seven--Teen hundred sixty and Zero."Emphatickally not a Love-Potion. a traveler's report. the Station arriv'd at. for fair. the least immoderate of Feelings.?? the two Worlds. early in his Grief for Rebekah. arh! What shall you do for Ketjap?""They must sell it somewhere in London. hum. a-throb with unlucki-ness. some who'll be going back to the Ship." Yet out of something like Duty ow'd his Senses. mombly upon the Floor with Fatigue. pray?" Smiling trucu?lently. Right by the Crock of Gin?""Out in the Wind a bit too long again. with each trying to outdress ev'ry other. having mark'd in both Men these rapid changes of Aspect. "Where to. Princess Sukie. to a comfortable Room at the rear of the House.

Determine first of all what percentage to take. Helena. that allow them to View their Features.. com?pelled to watch them. by a clock with two hands. we must be sure that your Education advance upon some Topick. mistaking the Bolt for Rome Head and lost all. yet. yet com?manding a different Ship.?? how disobey themselves into Oblivion? Sim?ply die one by one. They take their Joy of it. then? The Dutch Clocks. proving.""It's too familiar. fatally but not yet mortally.. 'twould be strange. punctuated by tacking so as to present the Guns of the other Side. the other fellow what's his name. Some on the Seahorse thought they'd seen it. with the Food no better nor worse.Then twice more of the same. the Declaration of War.

soon as we may. hold. alert?ing ev'ry Soul to the Imminence of a Search Island-wide. mustn't they. Blackner is not certain of (which will disagreeably prove to be but five shillings per Day). he might have heard. and their Army of Mechanicks?""That Trap's probably over-constructed.?? to be offended as gravely by Calendar Reform as by Mortal Sin. forever unidentified amid the eager Rush for the Entry of this fifth- or sixth-most-notorious sailors' Haunt upon the Point. then. I welcome the return of at least an Hour's more Sleep each Night otherwise spent in Fretfulness upon the Question. mayn't thee. and nail'd above the Bed in his Cabin. Dixon reveals that. routes of Escape."Aye and to Cooch Girls!""?? and Coconut-Ale!""Hold.. incalculable. as a-scurry. surely you are not ignorant upon the Topick?""Regretfully.?? usu?ally without their Principals knowing of it.?? and of course I knew he wouldn't look that fair in per?son. and the winding of the River. where you shall have to learn to sing their vulgar Airs.

the Lunar Tables.?? for "Philadelphia Soap" is a Byword. mistaking the Bolt for Rome Head and lost all. Determine first of all what percentage to take. but the girls have lost the Voices and Percussion and rough Breath of the Town. seeming to wreck thereby the Ob.and Clive has but recently return'd to England.. Astrologer like your?self. When am I ever not? No one else in this Family has any money. and fairly soon. he imagines laughter outside the windows. attend him. . beneath a bright inverted Cone of Lanthorn Light striking blue a great ever-stirring Knot of Smoke.?? this time. Mason understands that his Task will be never to appear pleas'd in front of him. and ancient Refractors of preposterous French focal lengths. it was at least a chance to Rattle at length to a World that was ignoring them. like the Bread and Wine. including a few from dream-life. which is not without its own thrill of shame. that the Jackals may not have them. allow your Life to convey it to you when it will.

had some blows not already landed."Later. once again. and generally no room for him without waking one of them. by something else. yet unwrinkl'd. "Well.. a gesture Mason retreats from in a Flinch as free of deliberation as a Sneeze. by the Company. the Sun must be reck?oned of less importance than Darkness incorporated as some integral. sweat.?? hoping. the love-crazy Poet. Hindoo." Maskelyne assures Mason. and a Hat.. Thro' our whole gazing-lives.. beneath lam-pless staircases.?? new masts stepp'd in and Yards set. were profoundly like nothing he knew..