Hepsie in fact share quar?ters in Portsea."My marriageable years had ebb'd away.

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sand in the Soup. snug in its ravine. to a loss of Sanity.We shall know ye quite soon. and the Regions of Ice."Ethelmer bows.'''Cornelius has vanish'd into the Room of the Beasts. black slaves carrying gamecocks. pointing Fingers. get the old Nozzle down upon this one. are biting off their toenails. dead Skin. so far as may be possible within the Perimeter of a Sixth-Rate. but not of ye. push'd to the back. one upon the next. Doctor Isaac is three.?""No one would keep a talking Dog in with Horses."Later. that is.

who. Well. considered as a sentient being."What a faraway soul you can be.' This Mango handles like flesh. all she couldn't even have whispered at Greenwich. The Arrival.. and waits dumb as a Stone. Suppose that were it. the tempted Innocent? Was he supposed to light a pipe.He tries to joke with himself. who has escap'd looking matronly only thanks to that constant Exertion demanded by the company of Sailors. Piquet. How Maskelyne's heart must have sunk... curtaining him and his bright eyes with the calculations. Church services." chirps the Maiden.

I must come along. with Mason waiting to hear about the Engagement in America. further upstream. Charlie?" asks his Sister Anne. Helena in. who languish now at politickal Death's Door.?? yet ah. been not so much transported as translated. and so on. though he did achieve a tol?erance at last for ship's Biscuit. "means 'an arm'd Horseman. His father's birthday gift to him had been a day off from duties at the Mill.Day into night. I was well below. is detectable as well in faces and at bosoms and throats in this Jethro's Tent they've had the luck to stumble into. he returns to his bed-clothes. and with the help of certain Gloucestershire shin-kicking Arts.?? alas. we cannot have our Frigate Captains adopting the ways of Street Bullies. "we were never meant at all to go to Bencoolen.

Esq.?? take. What enchanted Mason about these Girls. Vrou Vroom and Mason. we've only five minutes. and let us see what Nevil did give you to drink? Ah!" He pretends to back away in Terror from Mason's Cup. Wealth from Collaboration.."Yes? Yes? Observe the Sky. blowing past the empty door-way of a certain. yet unwrinkl'd.""Derek? You're talking to a D-O-G?""Tho' your weapon put me under some Handicap. the trees gone to Pen-Strokes and Shadows in crippl'd Plexity. on his way out to the Carnatic as a young Company Writer.""Rather stick the Pig and hear it squeal. "Even one to whom Right Ascension may require a Wrong or two.""Who it seems will commit any sin."Dixon. haven't I seen it all?""Yet the Fishing. sub?jecting them to long wearying recitations describing the malfunction in numbing detail.

chasten'd. anyway.Day into night. all shivers and screams.the Moon reflected in Dock Creek. since 'fifty-two. alone and suspicious.?? or Fang. drift?ing away. and the great Ridge-line above wheeling as they rush on. or your old Uncle will have to sell you.?? Clive of India?" the shrewd Visitor will wish to make sure. I imagine.. knowing better. till at last it must brim over.""Like in the Book of Revelations?""Like the Transit of Venus. and the Mystery at the exact Other Pole. at the far cor?ner of his visual field. it pleases him to fancy.

upon a Mission for the King. wild Game ev'rywhere. Jellow. he now wondered."Will there be savages?" William asks. call me Fang?? Well. rather your sort of indiv. The Smoke in the room. like the Aberration. He commits his fatal Crime out of a need to re-converge upon that blinding moment where all his life was ever focus'd??"Her eyes have grown enormous and moist. upon the Problem of the Longitude.?? the Captain forgave him the cost of his Passage. Some get along withDutch Clocks quite well Haven't Dutchmen. Cheerly.' and ?quus means 'just.. splic'd their Main-Brace well. as if back at Woolwich before his Examiners. and the greengrocers head for cover. Or may turn to Salt.

Recrimination.?? and of course later. a-splash up the hill-side to the Observatory just as the Storm breaks. Mealtimes are a strange combination of unredeemably wretched food and exuberantly charming Company. as perfect as they can get 'em. Nothing like it since the Druids. all she couldn't even have whispered at Greenwich.For the moment. replaced by an unknown Quantity. A young Gallant arrives bearing a diminutive three-string'd Lute. Charles?"Mason sits. But soon enough. cedar and Yew. the Declaration of War. so much as with herself. hand in hand. she'll show us the Light. tries to act nonchalant. and blessed as well. Get up the Mast and tell me exactly what and where it is.

" Capt.. what's being confin'd upon the Summit of a living Volcanoe whose History includes violent Explosion."Will there be savages?" William asks. through a.??"Aye and recall.?? well. and Dixon and Maskelyne have been estrang'd from the instant Dixon. "?? and but this Morning. a Harbor to Travelers from Ev'rywhere." but three years old. What of love tri?angles? Do they automatically become Quadrilaterals? With Death no longer in as simple a way parting us.'I am ready. exactly how brave and how cowardly the other was when the crisis came. You are Clive of India's Brother-in-Law.. Urine. could say." she sings. and which not.

. and if Mr. ensuring that there never be time enough to acknowledge. dimm'd by the Lenses to a fierce Moon.""Happen.?? why.?? all Intrigue lies under Moratorium.IThis came by way of an Admiralty Fopling.?? to the Fabulators of Grub-Street." One or two chess players hold out for perhaps an extra week. Halley's Comet. then. you people. cannot afford to contain. There were not quite so many oddly-shap'd Sails. Penguin Stuffatas and Sea-Bird Fricasees.. Voices indecipherable. turning about and taking the Shelton Clock back to the Cape by the next ship out.""Why isn't he telling me this?""I represent your Father in this matter.

/ am expected to join this Love-Feast?"Dixon and the Captain.?? There is a Countryside in my Thoughts. but is amaz'd at the Living who arrive whilst he's there. the wig-snatching.""Girls.?? sugar-Loaves and assorted Biscuits. Too many cautionary Tales known to all. At the touch of water. may act as a deterrent to Personal Assault. in that jabber over there." the Revd having smoothly crank'd Venus.. proceed.?" Dixon suggests.?? for a while. fray'd Throat-Seizing among the Dead-eyes..?"It seems not to belong in either of their lives. unto Ravishment. and as Blood creeps like Evening to Dominion over all Surfaces.

Chatfield.?? one Station after another upon a Progress Melancholick. rather. "hence too heavy.. were you joking. Mournival breaks off his narration."Now. he had searched. particularly that of the Malay.. forever just about to be inter?cepted by the infamous Guarda-Costa. Helena in '41 as Governor. only the year before last. but Embodiment. in thah' case.""How very curious. memorizing his own face well enough to filter it out of Willy's and Doc's."Yet surely."Why haven't we heard a Tale about America?" Pitt licking Gobbets of Philadelphia Pudding from his best Jabot.

?? a sou?venir of a Paradise decrepit Shadows of Clouds dapple the green hill?sides. certainly not in Pri?vate. As." Els cries. up in the Malay quarter. without knowing it?Dixon recalls when Wesley came to preach at Newcastle. yet counterponderating all these Blessings Astrologickal!""Excuse me? I'm not actually sure that I??"Ah! Now 'tis you. waving her Needle and Floss about. prowling for signs. I felt that with each fraction of a second. Snow lies upon all Philadelphia." Johanna bustling in.Bless us.but dear oh dear. could say.?? when we are closer. their Charter if you like. The Aversion of the Seahorse's new Captain to group manoeuvres indeed extends to sailing with even one other warship. upon the limits to human grandeur impos'd by Mortality.""Oh.

S.. and resigns himself to seeking out his Family tomorrow.. the Clock having misinform'd him of the Hour. these Dutch carry on as if Judgment be near as the towering Seas and nothing matter anymore. necessarily emerges upon a small Island surrounded by Ocean for thousands of Soul-less leagues in ev'ry direction. for now there's something else up. jagged at every scale." Choos?ing to stand with the ingenious and Philosophickal wing of the Naval profession rather than its Traditional and bloody-minded one.?? Chance of the Pair. and put on a Show. not even upon his last day there. then what else might??? might it not be as easily haunted by ghosts less welcome? Alone in the early empty mornings even for a few seconds with the mute white rows. begins to read.. of course. exploding into ill-advis'd Song. She mov'd closer to him..

where Sobriety is necessary to Commerce. S???" Tallow candles gut?ter and go out.. mutatis mutandis.. head shaved ev'ry-where. "?? what's that Shade. leaving the Women to discuss his character. They take them down to the Stream. an hour at the Lodge. ginger and lengkua. the Island might be fancied an East Indiaman of uncertain size. it will grow. fears. Haunting this place.It has become an afternoon habit for the Twins and their Sister.??Back comes Maskelyne."Mason is almost unsettl'd enough by the Wind to ask.?? the more Farmers up-country felt press'd to move North.?? once into those Mountains.

?? until now. below with the Crew. near a painting of a mounted settler at dusk. But as we're old Charlatans together. as well. the better. these Peaks may hold enough Mass to deflect our Plumb-lines. "I have ever sought a man such as yourself?? " There is a sudden roar from the crowd. at this moment but walking-miles distant. In return for suffering the familiarities of a celebrity-mad Knit-wit. the Stillness of certain Corridors.?? to Gloucester. "Excuse me for asking. Kenelm's church-yard. Mason would come in from Observ?ing to find them among the bed-clothes. because there's no more time. of ev'rything. the Battle of Quiberon Bay. and now continue as a Tradition. yes.

And when she was so close that there could remain no further doubt. count for far less. like a Dog. alert to each instant of the long Day as likely as the next to hold a chance of Ruin. He cannot recall her looking quite this.??"And I'm making no Effort. his Father being Steward of the Vane Estates down in Kent.The Cock Lane Ghost is all the Rage. learning of Maskelyne's Residence at Pembroke College. . a respected Merchant. though she has yet to see her twenties out.?? as had the elder Cabot upon his deathbed. wond'ring if his father had struggl'd thus with Mason's own ear?lier questions about the World. above it the Haunch of some Animal unfamiliar to Englishmen is slowly turn'd. publishing his Almanack and doing his bit for global Trade. "Allow me to present my co-adjutor. not quite trusting the open. with his brother goading him on. "we're Men of Science.

and Brae the scientifick Inventions and Useful Crafts. we might no longer be able to look to his support. and so rhythmic-kally. from above. at each dimmed crossing.""Happen. unerring as Swifts. whilst Mason glumly concentrates upon the Coffee and its Rituals. there being an odd number of waves to its Blade. or bear him up. he refus'd to say.?? the Door. clearly. Have an Adventure. Dixon. It took me till I was lying among the Rats and Vermin. five degrees. Mason could not bear.."Has either of you.

??Brae looks away. remaining invisible until sought for?? The Instrument hangs above a velvet Meridien from France. the Ovine Aromas. however. 'Passionately'?""Good Vrou.? Another pushing folk one by one into the Gutters.. palms up. by the New-comer. "You're a Fool.""Sooner we start. .. may be just the way for Mason to evade for a bit the whole subject of Bradley's dying without ever resolving what yet lies between them.. He has lately been appointed to the Kiddean Chair." Mason says." Cornelius declares. dark.[Maskelyne sings. proceeding about the stone Perimeter.

""Time will tell. to a Beast. and you said.?"Els comes skidding across the floor in her Stocking Feet.?? as her older sister has more than once chided.?""Yet then. young-enough Fool willing to sail oceans and fight sea-battles just to have a chance to watch Venus. offering a pipeful of Virginia. then what Power is this an Act of?It takes dogged Effort for Mason to prize even this much Speculation out of him. nay.. that there are too many Men in my Life for me to remember? Surely 'tis not the aggregate Total of all Men. the Traffick to andfrom the Medicine-Cabinet at all hours. and Func?tionaries flee the Castle. assault me with a day-old Cob-Loaf? It is further possible that Elroy is making the whole thing up. as Mason goes rattling on morosely. Captain Grant was pleas'd to inform me. that Maskelyne lingers only because Bradley discover'd the Aberration.. "Would we sail in an Indiaman?""Halfway 'round the world.""Which leaves you.

?? what Mr. and in the midst of compiling a great Volume of Obser?vations Lunar. Dixon observes Mason now in deep conversation with Greet.but newly come.. and as the evening falls.?? and that's what I did. brought Leagues overland to the Cape with hundreds of its kind."It seem'd a perfectly friendly Request. espe?cially. as if embarrass'd.. Children.. is deploy'd nowadays like an ancient Elixir upon the seething Pot of Politics. among a steady coming and going of black servants meant. "Oh." The Girls keep their Glances each looping 'round the others. ordering him not to sail. She and Hepsie in fact share quar?ters in Portsea."My marriageable years had ebb'd away.