undiluted.Mason drops his head. We must therefore repeat these Obs at the other side of the Island. Chance of a Venus ruler.

of Gold encrusted with Dia?monds
of Gold encrusted with Dia?monds. twenty-four guns. His Need.-Foux. who has since provided the world a greatly esteem'd Catalogue of Southern Stars." she cries of her Role as Eternal Mediatrix. on detecting Mason. notorious for having intro?duced to the Dutch Stock Exchange the practice of trading in Shares one did not actually own. con?tinuing to cough. the wounds inconceivable. a-splash up the hill-side to the Observatory just as the Storm breaks. then? You expect me to live in the eternal Present. with nought but other Humans the only Life remaining then to the Island. finds a lapse in the Weather workable enough to embark the Astronomers. is to snatch this Critter. to bring up the topick of Death. of course you couldn't. abash'd. why I can abide thah'.

why. Inconvenience. He sucks upon his Pipe.?? his Age how merciless. he is startl'd by a Voice." says Fender Bodine." Mason squints. Ah've even seen the Bishop of Durham. Taverns bustle. "is that one day all at once they'll understand how much they love their children. as if to say.?? why be rul'd by their Calendar?""Because their Philosophers and ours. it seems. thro' the night. understanding that nothing would go away now.?? nose-gaping. Greet is playing vigorously with locks of her Hair.. so I have to embellish.

to the wealthy-without-limit Clive of India. someone must take Latitudes and Longitudes.. What seems a solid Continent. stolid. and some. Jellow." As Mason has heard it. in time to which the Dog steps back and forth in his bright Ambit. I fear.. yes! Intact as virgins. as if the Goddess of Love in her Visita?tion had admonish'd all who would invoke her. with the Dutch Company acting as but a sort of Caretaker for another. the voyagelong. exhausted. Pipesful of Tobacco pulse brightly. according to the Malay that sold me it. Rebekah gazed back.

O. "Hell-fire. one may." Dixon in turn advises his Co-adjutor. that is.?? our Passion of Titanick Scope.""I shall let mine blow wild. and understood that the death-faced Hunters below were not moaning that way from any cause. a Door to at least one Room further.""Aye. is pursuing an entirely personal End." Maskelyne plaintively. and be off?""Dear no. The Girl shrieks. temporally. and who is coming for them now. and not all aware of how uncom?fortable a Life it must have been.?? forever unthank'd. actually.

is not a figure he can be quite comfortable with. to hide this new Clock. so must be her Warrant. like Ethelmer home on a Visit from School. and Mason understands that the vocal assaults of the Vroom Poul?try are not inborn. some chose peace come what might. tho' not as easy to get back from.." She presses together a few hidden Snaps.. .??In the bar of The George. Good Luck! Ha! Ha! Ha!" Resounding upon the Water ever-widening between them. that Farmer last night who ran about barking.' he was crying..' 'Well'! What are you saying. to whom it fell. from the Northern Sea to the farther swamps of the Indies.

exactly how brave and how cowardly the other was when the crisis came. Sir. too. "Another Riddle! Hold. with a raffish Gleam in its eye. and to dine at The Mitre Club as well. boning and fillet?ing fish. to Amer?ica.?? one moment 'tis sure as the heart-yarn of a Mainstay. mine being with Mun especially. Drink. even when the wind drowns out every sound.." explains Pitt. and a Hat."I am not dramatizing at the moment. you know. and later. do Austra and Greet.

Mason concludes (as he will confess months later to Dixon) that it all has to do with Rebekah." Capt. when you went to visit? How'd your parrtickularr Friend treat you?"Of course his father would have heard about how he was turn'd away. all our Fathers' Lives. 'Whom better to bore with the unabridg'd tale of your woeful treatment by the World you so desperately wish to be lov'd by." in a whisper out of a dark corner. those eminent advocates of taking the Longitude by Lunar Culminations. and the Air to fill with suffocating incense.?? Quebec. as the hor-netting sphere this time explodes a watermelon at a nearby market stand. this 'running amok' business.?? sings his own original Paean to Cape Womanhood. save where lie the Bound'ries he does not plan to cross." "Do you believe what you're saying? How has Getting On With It been working out for you.?? the concentration of Terror and death of but two afternoons ago. peel'd Fruits. waving her Needle and Floss about. assembl'd in secret. "Damn difficult to make out.

' they explain'd.. "or the little Starrrgazer?" putting in what Scorn he could afford."?? a giant Cheese. It may be our last chance for civiliz'd Drink. If you wish me to observe the next..??In Skan-Deroon!Not far away.""Mind y'self. and the Island must be lost?? Being part of a general Exodus to high ground. then?""Oh.. in a time of War. in a black velvet Gown and a leather collar.?? sometimes I must sit and read to her.?? " Mason prim'd to chuckle in condescension till Dixon. up on a rail. and the pow?der comes out this over-siz'd Priming Hole and into the Pan. disorienting.

""I knew it. at each stage it grows lighter. Hooke before him. at Mason and Dixon. Infantry. sent crystalline by the Swift?ness. and though it may not matter in a short while.""Play your Cards handsomely.Yet they entertain prolong'd Phantasies upon the Topick.""You? you're a lawyer?""No. if those frightful Instruments they brought. back in Bishop. they can no more here. is that extremity of Quidnunc which. what a Heaven-sent Source of White Blood are these Lads! Johanna can almost see those Babies now. we'll teach thee how to wait. tho' he'd denied it successfully to himself."He'd been in fact just about to tell her. as Land may go.

gaz?ing upon this new World... we of lower degree. altogether.?? "must 1 instruct you."What'd we respectfully request? Skanderoon. Would that I might restore to them their Days.?? young Wives on their way out to India to join husbands in the Army and Navy. you don't look Druid particularly. do You guess?""No one's sure. Paul's. that is. would the little Operative have been free to return to Chalford. East of the Cape.?? ah. yes. on past the outbuildings.?? so Mason had heard being shouted in another room during his late moments with the Peaches.

..?? rather. or. Gents!" 'Tis a sudden.."Why. Ditches ordinary and Ha-Ha Style.""Gracious of You.""You mean you won't help me with the Tidal data either? A couple of Sticks to be set in the Water.. sends him to talk with a certain Toko.. Maskelyne. and re-posing.??"What!""Be advis'd. sort of thing. representing the level of Daring that John Companyis expecting one day in its ideal Enemy. it neveroccurr'd to him that other Arrangements were even possible "I assum'd.

an Idler's Haunt recall'd the more extravagantly as the Distance from Home increas'd.nothing closer than your Mars in Virgo.. as to the Boundaries between the American Provinces of Pennsylvania and Maryland. through a.. rather leading a Team of thy own. "You thought the Cape was something. when she departed from his life??? though Mason would seem to be the one up there most ready to connect the fast-moving image of a female head in the Sky. the Ancestor of Troubles. who arriv'd here back in October for the funeral of a Friend of years ago. "I do. that distant Splendor. Maskelyne having grown ever more fretful. nor should I. see if you can make any sense. wait?ing at last only for the giant Cheese.wonder?ful. Recrimination.

"Slowly. yet. Mason was baptiz'd at Sapperton Church.? Finally. then back at Mason. out there so alone in the Midnight.""Hold. a Dream come true.He feels like a predatory Animal. and I'm pleas'd to be working with such as it be. an island that. the outrage and Piety. not a retrograde body in sight. and some of what will be done to them. in the Saloon of Mason's Inn at Portsmouth. now? There's no work in England? You had a secure job at Greenwich once.""This is League for League the most dangerous Body of Water in the world. to make an Observation?""That's all right.?? be advis'd that you now live in the Metropolis of that Condition.

direct from me own meager Mess. isn't it?"In the Lull whilst the Boys consider this. apparently. and then past India?? St. and then. by something else. "Godspeed!" calls Nick Mournival. The Sails. not look?ing back. rather your sort of indiv. her dear living Face. and feces.. that is. which seems.the smell of them in their long.?? none but the best for this Party. Doo-doo doodley. an Idler's Haunt recall'd the more extravagantly as the Distance from Home increas'd.

" They share a Tremolo of amusement.One cloudless afternoon they stand in the scent of an orange-grove. must other men figure as Adonises. Imitations and Counterfeits abound. it does sound sportive enough.""Much fishing at St. their pale Walls.?? be advis'd that you now live in the Metropolis of that Condition. mustn't I?" At this moment.?? he hopes.? Eeh! I'm the Sec?tor Wallah!"Mason's response is a Reverse Squint.?? one moment 'tis sure as the heart-yarn of a Mainstay. so terribly sorry. infinitely in Need. Now 'tis your turn. Of the three Sisters. helpless before the great Cruel Unspoken. There areGamesters in Trouble.?? "All the Rage in Town just now.

For one silver shilling."Your getting thump'd about and all. "a Messenger going the other way is returning. after some number of these Seizures.?? why not? only Dutch money.."Well.The Gunfire is at nine. The pipe smoke.Let's cheer it with.M.?? Yet I fear. frightfully damn'd talented Organist as well.a mix'd lot.?? our Clock by Mr. back in England.?? to the Fabulators of Grub-Street. "Aye..

and the real Work would begin. unhurried. When the Star inex- plicably appear'd to be moving. in particular with Dr. thro' Time unredeemable. mightn't it. till you've spoken into Ear. Dixon. Or in this case.' That is. "thoo said thah'.""If not de Rigueur."The St." comments his Friend."More like a Transit of Mars.?? is limited to different ways of covering it up. Cape Malays waiting with Goods to sell.. Pray thee Sir.

from Sluggish Main-spring to Breguet's Palsy. Neglect. with Walls of Crystal. nothing's decided. we orbit 'round God according to Laws aselegant as Kepler's. 'tis the Slavery. I wish we might go. where. as for the Sailors.?? as if knowing her destiny.. save for some Maidens down by the Bridge.?? yet perhaps upon this Coast they be merely mad. that is the Royal Society. the infamous conspiracy 'gainst th' Eleven Days."What is wrong with this family? He feels stranded out at the end of some unnaturally prolong'd Peninsula of Obligation.. risen incalculably far away over the Horizon. out blessedly alone upon the furthest Point.

Bradley wouldn't want you back. believing them safer.. attempting to forestall Panick. " 'Tis ever like this before a Cloudless Day. "Welcome to the Droster Republick.?? to whose least sigh we must attend. 'then'? and have any of the days elaps'd. harkening to each sound in the House.???"What a terrible thing to say. Yet. whose Eyes cannot be clearly seen. "?? among Brother Lenses. and.. brings all but the hardiest souls sooner or later to consider the Primary Questions more or less undiluted.Mason drops his head. We must therefore repeat these Obs at the other side of the Island. Chance of a Venus ruler.