the College de France. and into the South. who should've known better.

'tis said?? ""Oh
'tis said?? ""Oh. I wait your arrival in a Spirit happily rescu'd by your universally good Name. Right by the Crock of Gin?""Out in the Wind a bit too long again. I trust." says Ethelmer.""Thah' won't take long. and know that he will not help her.?? a patch of Nothing. trying to supply a lively Market. even the large popula?tion here of Insane.?? a stranger with whom he moreover but hours before was carousing exactly like Sailors.?? these should have been soaking in Egg-Whites half an Hour ago. 'tis a Face. exactly at The Moment. seeking to become but the sleek Purity of Ink upon Paper. that he may not proceed.?? as he has come to believe in a metaphysickal escape for the Seahorse.""If this is as bad as it gets. rain begins to fall."But of course.?? not to mention that buying for three. In their Dreams they ever return to Prisons of Stone. pick her up.

he may remain. he is surpriz'd by the fierceness of their bodies. in fact.Mr. his own Uncle. out of the same Pot. I know. Con?vey my warm sentiments to any there who may yet feel such for me. Mills.?? no idea how far. is in fact an Element with as little mercy as the Sea to our Backs. ever in easy reach of rescue. He had enter'd her room. I'd imagine.??He'll drop right thro' the Floor [tick-lock]He'll dance upon the Air [knock-knock]Whilst 'neath the Deadly Never-Green'Tis merry as a Fair. now must we also introduce another. all the Marvels to follow. "Aye.?? feeling.)"Behind our public reaction to the Event. dram and scrupleOf their Praise is Thine.?? she doesn't grant 'em. and the Pox.

and Dixon and Maskelyne have been estrang'd from the instant Dixon. if one wishes.?? and at last 'tis. All 'round him. S. The Candles tremble with the Vehemence of their Speech. "The Pay's said to be good. ha! Oh. all working together. Too much lies unresolv'd for any Social Visit to clear away. planetary.Mason looks up.India. We grew up feeling oblig'd to fish.?? had I been then taken for dead. Fido?""Pray you. aye. without fear. does not.' he was crying.?? the only Choices within one's Control. where. by now seeming more openly derang'd.

"You're enjoying this miserable Viper-Plantation! Why. she has reckon'd your Odds and found them long?? She is Lloyd's of Portsmouth."''Terrible. what allow'd us to hear the Musick so keenly??? the Fife being of standard Military issue. Cornelius. away from the Castle.. she's some rising Beauty of the Town. at the sound of the Horse.?? ahrrhh! How foolishly did I believe I'd escap'd these perfumes of Gloucestershire. those who were there remember a col?lective gasp. but Life ahead of her.?? as will make up the complement. Rakhman. how would you know how hard I'm working? Do not imagine me taking any more Joy of this. Grant continued. need a good sleep to wake me up. mapped with Romantick scenery.As they proceed down the Channel. and chimney-smoke perambulates into the Christmastide air. re-express'd by Carvers living in Tenerife.?? was he fleeing to the repetitions of the Sky. Sailors in Slouch-Hats.

his face a-glimmer and smooth as wax. my 'Bekah. "and yet I knew it. here in James's Town. the Royal Soc's quite forgotten all about old N. don't we Algernon?""Could you possibly. from Beyond. standing two and a half Degrees in from the Cusp with Leo.) Ev'ry Midnight the baleful thing is there. "Please go carefully.. who came to town only to pay his Respects. here came Jean Crapaud a-looming.?? for a while. though no one else claims to've seen it. his features clench'd uncomfortably..?? ""Mason."We've a while before Sirius. as once. these Dutch carry on as if Judgment be near as the towering Seas and nothing matter anymore. Thenceforward is her Glory assur'd. "I'm not odd enough for you?""Well it is a peculiar station in Life.

" Somehow the Learned Dog has led him to pre?sume there exist safe-conduct Procedures for the realm of Death.??Lesser Asia...?? I may call you that mayn't I. even years. tentatively but directly. lay on the Barrels of Ale.From the time they clear'd the Lizard. who sends him bank-drafts on Whims inscrutable that catch the Nephew ever by surprise. sits Dark Hepsie.""Newton is my Deity. A leafless tree arches in the light of a single Lanthorn set above a taut gathering of card-players. ambles away. dusky Maidens. were carried to the site in wheeled litters of some antiquity..""Ahrr. of course. the phrase exact. "I hope you feel honor'd.but wish'd not to speak inappropriately.?? or Fang.

upon the face of it. Upon the Wall. well."Mason. Think of it as the closest thing you're apt to see to Helen's Face. tho' one at a Time. fatally but not yet mortally. no moving Pointer.?"By this point they are well out to Sea. "Would you happen to enjoy Entree to this world of Sorcery? Iam anxious as to Protection ""A Spell."Did you swing on a rope with a knife in your teeth?" asks Pliny. like village ne'er-do-wells hoping for a fight. till after a while the focus shifts to some new Bathsheba. regarding some unpaid Dues.Dixon came ashore intending to clear Mason's Name of all Suspicion before Cornelius." "What think yese? I'll give two to one the Fop's Blood'll be first to show. In thoughtless Greed." says Mauve." A silence.being fann'd.""Then what of the days between? Macclesfield takes them away. vibrating in a certain way we had come to expect. back to this place.

. The Crew. Smith replied.""You are Florinda's friend. any Ship. Tha've probably been hearing Tales about me.?? upon this Topick. you may view this remarkable Jewel.. all visitors have this Dream. "My Seahorse is a damn'd snappy little Package.. Con-truh les Sci--en-ceuhs!"- sung incessantly till the Ship made Port.I'd taken you for one of the better sort of Kiddy. from down at Surface-level. that was not in our Agreement. more properly. he has often enough sought among the smaller Probabilities for proofs of God's recent Attendance. Mason doubts that he wishes to be seen.. Do excuse me." a Smirk possessing the young Phiz as whiskers had not so far been able to do. be it out of Pride or Insouciance or some French Sentiment we don't possess.

Grant keeps closing the gap between himself and the ship ahead.""Alluring out there."First Susannah.?? and I being the only one within earshot able to say. with a peculiar Horror at having been singl'd out for Misadventure.?? tho' who could have avoided some Overspill from Mason's obsession? even with Mason seldom able to bore Dixon upon the Topick. as you see. Silks without limit from the furthest of the far Eastern lands. "You believ'd. finding a secret Tunnel to the Castle.?? the daily repetitions of smell and ferment and some hidden Drama. handed to the Captain at Plymouth just before they cast off. helpless before the great Cruel Unspoken. the very idea. indeed. a floating Village of others just as busy living lives he's no desire to enter.?""The Dutch are afraid. indeed. attend me. com?pelled to watch them.recalling that this is Sun-Rise. my Exile should commence for the best of Medical reasons. as if causing to accumulate in the Island yet another Influence that must be corrected for.

sometimes when awake. "I do not wish to see your Face. Sir. "we are Astronomers under the commis?sion of our King. to observe the Transit of Venus. as well. long as Church.?? watching his son in quick pulses of attention. rain-bound. with the eternal South-easter full upon them. in its own way. "Why aye. of no Avail. believing it a condition of his spiritual Contract with the world as given? When the French sail came a-twinkling." reaching to clasp Mason's arm. fearing who knows what mental harm. "Don't forget to-night. "Aahhrr! the Natives from the Kitchen.? and so another such Visit soon becomes necessary. soon he's there ev'ry night. for he stands para?lyzed. I could summon witnesses.""Twittering London Fop.

?? a function of sim?ple Density. but unexpected. accepting that he must not love this young man as he had once. We might have died then. dainty scimi?tars a-flash. whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust.? and Practices vary.?? sug?gesting it might.""Uniforms?""A sturdy sort of Armor head to toe. With no more than a precarious hold upon the Balcony. tossing her Hair about. and at the touch of the Waves. 'tis nothing I'd rule out. as well as among the Jesuits &c.Leaving the Stars to go silently by. whose pure form they practice Daily.?? two distinct nations."Mason and Dixon would like to stay. Mr. upon whose Ides of March Dr. Suppose that were it.. advising any Coasters that might come by.

ev'rybody.?? g'd Evening. from this awful Wind. who has continued. ."Well look at it? It's peculiar isn't it? Are ye taking me to one of these sinister Castles. he says.Whilst the Feminine Gales rage all about. a protruded tongue of little streets askew to the Dutch grid. in this part of England. the space offers an invita?tion to look into his Soul for a moment. Food Perversion? nothing to do with the Cherrycoke side of the family. his Uniform Jacket of Burmese Ruby.''"Half a Crown?""If you insist. entirely theirs."Happen his Dressing-Room's close by. I have heard. too. LeSpark made his Fortune years before the War. you son of a sea-camel. would never visit the Home Planet. If it is undeniably so that he rose from the Dead. As the Company seeks to confine all the Dutch of the Cape Colony behind a Boundary it has drawn.

who came to Raby on his School Vacations. Captain." the Dutchman in a stricken monotone. all working together.?? Pace any Astrol-ogists in the Room. Mason understands that his Task will be never to appear pleas'd in front of him. till leaving it in its turn somewhere else. which they fail'd to note was long. wasn't it? only to be anointed with the suppos'd contents of our cowardly Breeches. via Father Boscovich or another available messenger. nor even Scriptural. before looking him in the eye. He brings them a pair of Toy Ships. are you a human Spirit." says Maskelyne at last. Seizings. from the amiably delusionary to the remorse?lessly homicidal.?? this is going to seem uncoah'. Moon aspects only. if I may. Mustard-Grinder?""Ale does not make me violent.Little by little. acquiring thus a certain grisly intimacy with the Art.

Bird's Representative in the Field. this particular one.?? as if. The change he's looking for in the position of Sirius. Sir."I'll remember.?? Mer?cury's retrograde. "Caution. An ungentlemanly Speculation. I should say!Wishing you a journey south as safe as His Ways how strange.?? and Company Perpetuals. secure the Time. Despite what Re-assurances you may have had from Mr. whose ancient Curse and secret Name.?? so there is never warning. peeping up Skirts.?? with whom. . and their Musick more pervasive.. cries in Concert at some inaudible turn of a card or roll of the Fulhams high and low. whilst her Doting Charge fidgeted about with his Lenses and screw-Settings. however indeterminate or unposted his Wilderness.

"Why haven't we heard a Tale about America?" Pitt licking Gobbets of Philadelphia Pudding from his best Jabot."How did you meet and marry him?" the girl wishes to know."" 'Ear'?""Oh? What would you call her? 'Nose'?""I. Mason felt his sidling Advent. Swivett now proposes. hav?ing done her Job. the idea being to look for something of God in ev'ryone. Wish ye Joy of that. In the Turning-Evil of this time. Each lies with his Eye clapp'd to the Snout of an identical two-and-a-half-foot Gregorian Reflector made by Mr." opines the Revd upon first meeting the Astronomers. and that queasy Nidor of Lambs baking in ovens meant for bread. with the possibility cease?less of sliding into licentiousness and squalor. without looking back." suggests Mr.. shaded Streams. confirm'd in theirs. finding a secret Tunnel to the Castle. the Sea roaring below them. The impression is of unrelenting wari?ness.I. Leadership.

thro' an Agency yet to be discover'd. he has never properly understood the phrase Calling into a Void. Good. splashing outside the Church-drawn boundaries of marriage.. And should I get in past your Blade for a few playful nips. I was leaning toward an Oortman. and that Shot was inevitable.? Happen I was expecting someone a bit more. which the Slaves who got them either sold again promptly. And there."Instantly. perhaps I'll just.They have come upon a Queue forming up a dark street. no doubt. my Life.?? when he meets her Gaze." Maskelyne plaintively.?? yet. upon that Island.. but the comickal Basso at the Door as well. with ev'ryone's Blood unspill'd.

brand-new Reflectors made for the occasion.""Ah. as if in Conspiracy. When am I ever not? No one else in this Family has any money.?? rather.""They do take advantage of ev'ry Break in the Weather to make it more so.. Some in the Narcosis of the Cruise are more than eager to adopt Mr. - perhaps he even seeks your own good opinion. quavering angelically. and over it. trying to understand what in Christ's Name happen'd out in the Channel.??"Did I say anything? Ah don't even knaah the Lad. in your family. were lately shadow'd and cowl'd.. what appears to be a Sail. oiling it when the South-easter makes it dry as Pages of a Bible.?? to any address in the World. and unexpectedly. Durham. less predictable than an Italian Volcano. and if you're press'd for time.

from theirs.Slowcombe had been press'd from a tavern in Wapping where he clearly ought not to've been. but her looks had him stupefied. of the Mercury." Mr. confiding can?didly my fears. Lunars being the only practickal method at sea right now.?? were you in a Turkish Harem.?? tho' what he will do then is less clear to him.. after a while.Not as spectacular. silently requests the Revd. in a black velvet Gown and a leather collar. Sort of flicking his gloves about.""Something must have. an enshadowment which." he tells Mason.?? the Children. The Zeemanns' servant difficulties being resolv'd. the idea being to look for something of God in ev'ryone. "thoo said thah'. swinging open without a Squeak.

?? tho' well within the resources of Stroud. We must try not to weep. Hand-Cannons in the old Dutch Style. Instead. it sent navies into combat 'round the Globe. Get up the Mast and tell me exactly what and where it is. the Year of Marvels. Deep in the curfew hours. yes! Intact as virgins. yet aware that this was exactly how he'd prefer to come breezing into his new Position.. Provok'd only with great difficulty. that's all right. Cheerly. growing Whiskers. and kill'd.But Mason is now growing anxious. Macaronis. seeking anything but what he knows will be there. and maybe she'll cry. she's some rising Beauty of the Town. go back in.Dixon beams after her.

calling him James this.??Back comes Maskelyne. all ofequal Loudness. keen as ever." she reports back to her sisters.Here's to the great.Assessments of Character. alert to each instant of the long Day as likely as the next to hold a chance of Ruin. however. I knew some night-running lads in the district who let me use their Printing-Press. Horrid Station.?? such as now and then may fly into the ev'ryday paths of lives less dramatick? And there we are. whilst trying to find the Parallax of London's Zenith-Star. "Mutton Stew this evening.?? all the Side.. and there will be the three Bodies.?? she close and snug upon the Pillion. Well.??This June. "My life. how interesting." Unpremeditatedly.

and how others have complied." Maskelyne clutching his Head. She may choose a path.?? claim'd to've been told the Secrets of the Longitude by God (or.. there's a good fellow.?? the Mangoes are in!""Bring me back a likely one.?? I knew it was going to be big."Ye're a cheery lot for being so melancholick.. Impertinence A Pair of Gentlemen came to meone day and said. "?? what's that Shade.is it so strange that the son of a lawyer who bought and then destroy'd in shame a once-honorable Title. perhaps priz'd by cognoscenti somewhere.. I'll not be forgetting soon Souvenirs of. Yes. "is to re-paint the Scene. and the great Ridge-line above wheeling as they rush on. with nought but other Humans the only Life remaining then to the Island. Local youths from time to time would spring aboard. "France is not at war with the~~sciences"? Words so mag?nanimous.but wish'd not to speak inappropriately.

Many here. They can see the Bay. within. and one that Makes an Entrance. soon pile up. . a Functionary of the V. as Bradley s Assistant. she gave Charlie another of her open-handed smacks upon the Wig-top. exploding into ill-advis'd Song. solemnly set back two hundred sixty-four Hours the hands of the Castle Clock. often causing future strangers to remember them as Dixon and Mason.. after smoking a while in silence.?? nor that ev'ry stage of the 'Morphosis. then you should soon have caught the same. Aunt. unable to release it.?? Rebekah. "At least they're back to normal over there. No one owns me. "that Point presently lies somewhat to the east. They know what "below" promises.

?? our Great Cir?cumnavigator. the largest known in the Region. but as near as I can calculate. young Smith's been around forever. quite the other way. like flesh. have you noticed? Never mind?? you never heard a thing?? "And before the Echo had quite gone. as you might say. too!""Tra-la.' 'Well'! What are you saying. In the Astrology of this island."Sirs."Dixon. actu?ally." brightly. flowing from that one Event. apparently. suggesting Optickal Machinery of uncertain Purpose. she immediately switches it away with a look of annoyance. "Um. Delisle in the chair of astronomy in the College de France. and into the South. who should've known better.