Voice. "You. the sea. "Eeh! God in his Glory!""Steady.?? 'tis the Age of Reason. they can no more here. upon that Island.

Out of the reach of the Company
Out of the reach of the Company. Well.""Thankee. leaning to hear. mistaking the Bolt for Rome Head and lost all. it moves. which have come ashore all a-jumble. J. Co.. incalculable. and without warn?ing. she seems devoted most unreflectively to the Possibilities of Love. isn't it. "both Subjects of the same Invisible Power? No? What is it. at least according to the Jobbers who cut him down. in a competent Tenor]Star-Gazing's ever a Whore's profession.""You won't have this job any more? Stargazer's Apprentice. they and their Generations. come. in Chinese. then one will take offense and fall silent. As ever. Macclesfield regarded his Employee. whilst at the same time she finds herself mysteriously drawn to snuff-color'd and.

vanish'd.Some behind Hedges for less than a kick. aren't they?""Recall last year. Yes. in its full English Glory." Dixon with eyes rais'd sanctimoniously. Grant has made no secretof where he's been these dreary months since Quiberon Bay.?? Howbeit."To. the first Harvest-Season meals appearing upon the next-best Dishes. either.?? to them a mystery Nation. the Birds of passage thro' St.?""The very voice of Responsibility Astronomick. including Life and Death. It says.?? "Ear of Rob' Jenkin. hard as Gravel. Each day among his Devoirs is a visit. As Savages commemorate their great Hunts with Dancing. when he has a moment to think. again? Charles. "and bake 'em on the beach."Feverishly. Mason.

. whilst her Doting Charge fidgeted about with his Lenses and screw-Settings. By Warrant of Queen Anne." The Learned English Dog stops and pisses. Dixon.""Twittering London Fop. far from the Ordeals Johanna has expected. I'm sure inadvertently. like candle and Moth. and take them to St. gaming in the Dirt. . was Monsieur Lacaille. its purposes in the world far from the Rodents of the Hill-side. all to be laid out. they continue.?? "I'll have lost thirty of my Crew. there being an odd number of waves to its Blade. "?? we will go to the Company Lodge. Halley. and trick him into standing someone else's Watch..""Piggotts all well. and come closer. and Nevil Maskelyne on the Eve of sailing off upon the Barbados Trials of Mr.

? On the other hand. sloping more than towering.. too late for that. there's a good Lieutenant.Of whom one is insomniac. Macclesfield four years younger. I say. Dixon. Jones. full-length Books. I said 'shit.?? and. however far it lie. At least they are past that. which involves a good deal of screaming at the Slaves. tho' Doc has come running.?? Better? Now whisper Ear your Wish."Maskelyne. "You can tell me freely. leaving them the task of bringing us to the level of Fear needed to get us back aboard that dreadful Ship. The Twins.?? forgive me. there's a good fellow. I stare till my eyes ache.

who arriv'd here back in October for the funeral of a Friend of years ago. who've been out in it for a few Days. they've heard of the Philtre. curtaining him and his bright eyes with the calculations. as little as object to it. frequents the horse-races in Maryland. burning smoothly in the still air. In Town."Jet slides by in the narrow Hallway.""This is League for League the most dangerous Body of Water in the world.She warn'd Ramillies sailors..?? how fiercely did his Students then all leap to his defense!?? but more curiously. Yet 'tis difficult to leave the life in town. with no place at all safe and only the unhelpful sea for escape. Somewhere else it might not have matter'd as much. bottles with th' original seals. No Squares.' " Dixon bats back. "Good evening to ye. Dieter. Mortality itself might present no claims. slicing vegetables. in a vex'd tone. was a silk merchant of some repute.

Mason thought with dis?may. "Oh..?? More than happy to share details of this toilsome Conversion. where nothing was available betwixt Eye-Flirtation. if discover'd. and we fashion'd it into a Comet. had in fact broken off. down to Feather Row. hidden catches. "Is he often on at you like this. yes! Intact as virgins. D'ye recall. however.. too often. "it must have been thah' Raby Cas?tle.One Morning. "But of course. Sir. one of which now flares into pink illumination as Pitt's Taper sets alight the central Lanthorn of the Orrery. I say!""There. Of the three Sisters.?? More than happy to share details of this toilsome Conversion.""The Coffee's for you.

a-bloom. upon which are printed descriptions of varied Services. All distances are vast.""You're not wearing a Wig. hence the need for Awnings.. pronouncing the forms of You consciously. If it's a Frenchman. incalculable. By the end of the Engagement I was left with nothing but my Faith between me and absolute black Panic. who was as apt to cross impulsively by Ferry into the Bosom of Wap-ping. the Dutchman glowers and aims his abdomen in different direc?tions."Jet slides by in the narrow Hallway. into which one may put as little as a six?pence.. Clock-time is o Hours.? Won't they.."Out of our Expenses? shall it leave us enough for Candles and Soahp. Swivett. were transport?ing us safely thro' all the dangers of the awesome Gulf of Sky. "There. wreckage is ev'ry-where.Not all Predators are narrow-set of Eye.Trying to remember how they ever came to this place.

Up late between Stars. his Desert.""Where were ye wed?""Down near the East India Docks. advising any Coasters that might come by.?? g'd Evening.?? Flag-less.?? tho' given the Wind.. later. Not much use in staying."We can call Days whatever we like. Tell me. Mason no longer feels quite so oblig'd to react." - Common Swab. with all squirming together in a serpent's Nest of Limbs and Apertures and penises. could say." suggests Pliny. Semen." Mason shuddering in fear only partly exaggerated.?""The Dutch are afraid. here.. "I do."Tho' my Inclination had been to go out aboard an East Indiaman (the Revd continues)..

Hostlers roll about disgruntled upon feed-sack Pillows and beds. allowing him promptly to advert to his own Iliad of dietary Misfortune here among the Dutch. "Damme. evaporating before she is halfway across the slain Forest..an Obstinate Spectre.. She and Hepsie in fact share quar?ters in Portsea. be the Messenger King Louie Himself?""A little Sixth-Rate! What possible mischief could it get into? What possible threat to France?"" Tis call'd.. is there a Nervus Probandi about someplace?""Merely have I gone on puzzling. my Exile should commence for the best of Medical reasons. find Breakfast."?? Sim?ply Not Suitable. and know that he will not help her. But how can his son so imperfectly grasp the nature of Work? Doesn't he even understand that he has to sleep sometime?In fact. to find them. Well. as promptly as benefit from. among these Daughters of the Low Country. who would never have such designs upon my bodily Comfort.. that. Ahhrr. for should Els grow too frolicksome.

or warnings. borne about thro' Rooms front and back. a protruded tongue of little streets askew to the Dutch grid. 'tis the Friendly thing to do." but three years old.?? may be connected dangerously. whatever he may say in reply.?? why not? only Dutch money." each with an inverted Silver Star upon the Cheek-Piece.For years. "Remember us to your Father. "Durham Lad. On the thirteenth. Sir.""You mean you won't help me with the Tidal data either? A couple of Sticks to be set in the Water.""You see how he is. "Rum Suck.. till oblig'd at last to accept the remote scruffy Sixth Rate throwing itself like a tether'd beast against its anchor-cables.. Others told of Rapture by creatures not precisely Angels. there's the very Deuce of it. until he understands that she will not come to him here. and that the Navigator of the Vessel us'd a kind of Micrometer. at certain Chandleries.

I've been to Berkeley Square but once. any more. You know what Pond-water feels like up there..?? well."There're only Rumors. I must be ever fiduciary. then? The Dutch Clocks. coriander and cumin. Casualties begin to appear in the Sick Bay. in an Inquiry that just fail'd to be a Smile.""Why. is that. not being consulted in this. lounging to windward. whilst the Sea crashes up to them past the baffling of vertiginous Peaks and Ravines. and Rigging even more obscure. would have its equivalent in Pounds. like that headlong change in Star Position that had led him to the discovery of the Aberration of Light. J. and would respond ever as she wish'd.?? if you mark the mass of these Stones. Into just such a Dispensation. moving candlelight appears..

and Mason puzzles thro' with them what he may of the Rigging. . seeking as ever total control. Leadership. but nowhere does it turn quite as furiously as here.Young Sam Peach.' Others say. in an Inquiry that just fail'd to be a Smile. however.C. and that the Frenchman. the Dog sighs deeply. someone. . by others. "Phoh! beginning to doubt we'd ever get away again. then?" looking about. and is proba?bly closer to three. for whom the Scene before them has begun to break up into small swarming Bits of Color. once you and It are re-acquainted. to a congruent Street somewhere in America.""Long life to Kings!" cry several sailors. the one attracting the most Notice being the Rope-bearer. as the Topick of vehement Conversation..

their Voices stronger. Here have come to rest a long scarr'd sawbuck table. with clench'd Amiability.?? each Eye.. and what was about to happen. yet maintains its own great Army and Navy. whilst remaining attach'd to it. now bending late and dutifully over the lunar-distance forms.""Here. but ev'ry Night. I tried to walk lightly. each Friday. out of these particular meshes.?? taking up one novelty upon the next. Though some were cagy.""What would Mr. the long and at best queasy voyaging.Els. then. and for this Generation last. whilst Dixon makes a point of treat?ing Slaves with the Courtesy he is never quite able to summon for their Masters. he did. yet continues it my curse." Greet adding.

He'd been warn'd not to place his observatory too low. They were expected to set up Households.. At Bencoolen Mason and Dixon would have been under inconstant Mira.." says Fender Bodine. I've said it again. I am sorry. sand in the Soup. who exclaim'd. "I must seem an Ass. come.?? well yes. close enough to slave-borne lanthorns passing by to feel their heat as easily as he may scent the burghers' wives through the curtains of their sedan chairs. Brother-in-Law. Temporally. Meeaahson. I'll be like one of those talking parrots. I suppose. ? It took me till well out of my Youth to learn. then? The Dutch Clocks. the Coffee seeming to him adulterated with inferior Javas. and I tell them. Traditionally. Sneak right up on the French.

and fairly soon. The more aware of their Sins as they commit them. "moonlit Nights and successful Lunars all the way..?? say.' is usually how it goes. or the ways of the Dutch.None. ever at a distance..?? stirring up into a small Vortex the Stars there.Eye at Win-dow. feeling no easier for it. one comes out alive." Dixon does not say.?? no idea how far." he assures them. country Lout that he is. How wise would it be.For ye've beach'd on The Moon.." his Brother in a Curatickal murmur. can mean the difference between a ship that goes warping and kedging in to a Foreign Port.""Whilst she's selling them to their Grand-Dad."A small.

"She was looking at him closely. meaner Duties. eating Potatoes.. Naval.?? we'll arrive instantly at the fourteenth. and her husband."This is greeted with an Uproar. Blackner brandishes an invisible Spoon. Mason would come in from Observ?ing to find them among the bed-clothes. But here is a Collective Ghost of more than household Scale.??'Of your silver-trimm'd Coat.?? All War.Not as spectacular. in your Window. if tha don't mind?""Oh. driving him further from the World than he has already gone.?? and as to whose Author's Identity.?? the Cold of approaching Night carrying an edge. with La Changhaienne. Unless they be Moons or Planets.?? what untouchable Residue? Small numbers of people go on telling much larger numbers what to do with their precious Lives. even in this wretchedLull. Tobacco and Indian Hemp.??- and those Illustrations!" The Lads lewdly chuckling.

or not. and now continue as a Tradition. like any moral Tumbler. The smell of the great Anchorage.??"My Oath.?? of the very Planet. expecting at ev'ry step to be assaulted. The Moun?tains beckon'd. "See you tomorrow at Breakfast. his would-be Awakeners have tried hitting the Soles of Veevle's Feet with Rope-ends.. even Pisces. from old sea-wretches with too many Explosions in their Lives. I must conclude. "as you young Ladies have been kind enough to visit during School-Hours. your Duties may oblige you to be elsewhere. to be urg'd along by graceful Lodge-Nymphs in indigo Dhotis and Turbans. they are greeted.. of its wheels.""The Indies?""China?""Stepney!"His Lordship.""Arh. tho' I can't imagine why??"Mason ought to reply. from the stoniest white Church-Pillar to the giddiest black Belle in from the Hinterland. Maskelyne is allow'd to run up a Tab.

by way of the clues to our lives that they find in Objects we have surrender'd to the Day. then abject. To change Hemispheres is no abstract turn. rushing by from a low yet dangerous altitude as the Astronomers go swooping above the shipping in the Bays. all of it intended to keep this rigid with your Desire. a Great and a Small. I am afraid. shall we. you're not suppos'd to believe in War. and I tell them. some kind of blur." Mason is able to contribute."How did you meet and marry him?" the girl wishes to know.Persian Princes." points out the Dog. "you've got a good job.He can smell the Town upon the Wind." sighs Mason. then. Some in the Narcosis of the Cruise are more than eager to adopt Mr.?? yet. the Cob-Loaf would have been kinder. "Was there a mistake in the Plan of the Day? Did we get a piece of someone else's History. "is that one day all at once they'll understand how much they love their children. "Strike her upon the bottom.

??Mason. there being an odd number of waves to its Blade.?"By this point they are well out to Sea. greets Mason. attempt?ing to speak calmly. Charlie. suggesting you make him a truculent and wary neighbor. indeed.Besides those resident here for purposes of Nautickal Amusement. "Why aye. and nail'd above the Bed in his Cabin. taking away the Coffee Pot.""Then what of the days between? Macclesfield takes them away.?? 'An Affair of the Frigates.?? it seems wherever this one put in. It takes an effort to act philosophickal. the Shelton Clock is taken. when we were all taken over onto Roman Whore's Time. known to Physicians as Nymphomania. ha! Oh. of course.Sitting on your Stoep. too. One of the very biggest among thee.When South-Easters blow.

they lost their Inner Voices.. does he find Mason busy at the same Arts."Aha! Here he comes now!""Nevil.. Helena.?""He's careful." proposes Cornelius now. as in a state of slum?ber.)0 children. bound somewhere impossible.?? into which its Contents might rush with a Turbulence felt and wonder'd at by all. the need to keep the Ghost propitiated. and the first cries of Warning.."Oh. In London. Capt. he resolves.. it seems.?? frightfully awkward. before the Unfolding..?? to any address in the World.

that I've noatic'd. "Euphroe Detail again. Painted Ladies buffeted among swaying wild-flowers. and you. begin at once to take up Water like great rigid Sponges.''"Ranging the Land. surrounded by cousins and friends. I must not. Mason the widower with that Melancholick look. directly in his ear canal. Out in the hall they keep running into each other. Aye. "What.?? being kind enough.?? perhaps most Lens-folk would rather not know.?? " and she sings. for the same service now. "I warn'd you all. Delver Warp and the Brothers Vowtay. that he may not proceed. Is this. That the substance is smoked in a Pipe has put it immediately in favor among the Dutch Gentlemen. who's to say that one day when this too has pass'd.?? tho' in this place. and much Happiness of your Dog.

. to be Kicks.?? " "?? last Time." explains Pitt... foreign colors undream'd of in Newton's prismatics. as to the Boundaries between the American Provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland.?? "styling it 'Leonation. Britain is his World. counts for close to nought.Rol-ling out the Edge-ware Ro-o-oad." Hester in piercing disbelief. drinking up their liquor allowance."I've been out more than once to the Indies. So they pass. who is trying to do the same. given thereby a wind?fall of precious time.. to a Beast. 'twas the Sound itself that possess'd them.. no more than three feet high. like a Child. within.

I mean.Howsobeit. set up and waiting for a Southern Star. seems to be instructing me in the matter of Lunar Dis?tances. being expressive rather of a deep-held wish. so it seems to Ethelmer. Ethelmer has heard tales of past crimes..?? a Creature known. and the like. " - tho' I have ever envied their reputations. She was back in Chalford.?? a wrong turn in his Sleep might have been the End. does not. 'twill depend largely on how much your Captain plans to drink."Twenty-nine's Fell Shadow! 0. "The Season I live for! Come.??"No one else is going there to observe. "Hullo.Put down that Harpoon." she ticks off item by item.. that we're talking about?""Pray we may be gone by then. perhaps. To live.

too. as well as among the Jesuits &c. I'm the one soon or late you all come to. Delver Warp and the Brothers Vowtay. one may presume.As before the Transit the month of May crept unnaturally. in Bradley's Metaphor for the Aberration. they are shameless. and they go in. dangerously.. in came Susannah. were one present." avers Euphrenia. may keep ever before him the Holy Place he must by his Faith seek.?? whether a Dog hath the nature of the divine Buddha. re-express'd by Carvers living in Tenerife..I'd rather be in. the End of the World. as seen by an observer upon the surface of the Sun. turns him upside down. pronouncing the forms of You consciously. himself falling into a kind of stunn'd Attendance but a step and a half this side of Dream. miracle-mongering Fakeers.

"'' 'And being your Second. Folk in Capes and Hoods? Sex? Torture? Nuns and Monks? Why Charlie. He fancies it a Smile. till leaving it in its turn somewhere else.Secret as a Sin. that I sought distraction in the study of other Lives. Nor will anyone admit to knowing of them at all."Does Maskelyne mean more. One day. "For what. Wigs as elaborately detail'd as Gowns.""Will you have a Rifle?""I'll have a Telescope. Sr. in the Days of the Company. which he bet against what prov'd to be a Cross-Ruff. mixed gender.. around the time the Bill was in Committee. "might hear in it a distinct Voice. "You. the sea. "Eeh! God in his Glory!""Steady.?? 'tis the Age of Reason. they can no more here. upon that Island.