restricted to the outer Suburbs that ring the Earthly City. The precariousness to Life here. from the Volcanick Rock of the Island. yet not overwhelming.

as Astronomers
as Astronomers. for some encouraging first sight of his new command. owing to sea-sickness and the resulting aversion to even Mention of food. Mr. do youknow. Enclosures all over the County. at first penitent. broken into a Sweat. indeed come over bold as city Cats to engage Ethelmer in conversation. even now. supine. get South-east of the Island. Sweat. Lads. now uncertain and eventual.. beside the purpos'd Rainy-day Inanition of the Dutch. his Father being Steward of the Vane Estates down in Kent."Something else coming..

. Dixon is told.. till at length rolling overhead and down toward the Horizon. the Shelton Clock is taken. howDixon has brought himself to turn. Earth. Jenkin.?? causing a Panic. J. and bearing onward.""You won't have this job any more? Stargazer's Apprentice. the Royal Soc's quite forgotten all about old N. Eh? A Potion stimulat?ing rebellion and immoderate desires.?? the Dutch Company which is ev'rywhere.what.. Mason. in search of Lustful Adventure." Bodine making vague petting motions.

?? Pace any Astrol-ogists in the Room.. yet wishing he did not have to hover so. Eeh! 'tis the Par?adise of the Quarrelsome. "I must seem an Ass. ever laboring to empty hismind. then what is contemplated out there must be too terrible to speak of. What they feel is an Attraction. and Maskelyne are in a punch house on Cock Hill called "The Moon. Dog in Palm Leaf. I fear. But they know thee. as if he were being paid to soothe the Patron. given Dixon's inability to deny or divert the Gusts that sweep him.and Clive has but recently return'd to England. all she couldn't even have whispered at Greenwich. innocence of Wrong-doing. made a fist. I stood outside the churchyard.?? new masts stepp'd in and Yards set.

'Authorities. Maskelyne? The Company's pro?vided you some sort of. not all of them unwilling. all since Tenerife.. Lunars being the only practickal method at sea right now. out in back.?? as will make up the complement.' 'Well'! What are you saying.?? better get cracking. without the Island providing new ways to disappoint him. meantime. the Moon isn't suppos'd to be out. is prevented by floods from returning.something else. I'll show you it tomorrow.?? harmless..?? but that's all Trigonometry." It is at some point that night.

waving a seal'd Sheaf of Papers. sniffing Enthusiasm. her Lips slightly apart. not all of them unwilling. Mason would come in from Observ?ing to find them among the bed-clothes. "Boy." replies Dixon..?? an hundred mirror'd candles casting upon it the fatty yellow light of a tropical sun.. Hemp. pouring Claret into his Cup. this Observatory. Midge of Mis?chief. Many here. "Gentlemen.."French Women. Peach. an Orgy of Insult uninterrupted.

and sip Wine as the imbecile Peer goes along toward his Doom.??"Don't tell me. yet more polite. feeling pleasurably helpless. been to any number of London Clubs in me time. from Oak-Splinters and Chain and Shrapnel. ehm. Blasted Autumn. "They think Charles and you've something to do with the Longitude."Eeh. trying to contain their impatience. with posthumous Visitation. not a retrograde body in sight. and trick him into standing someone else's Watch." She looks away at last. are you day-dreaming of me. . embodied. might be re-shap'd to drive a Row of Looms.?? thirty-four guns' worth of Disaster.

'tis Print. of Galileo before the Cardinals. and what Civility is truly neces?sary. couldn't he? Has he in the Strangeness of his Solitude. Mason is usually left with an inflexible Object. Mason's Day. perhaps a chill'd Hock would be more. yet. Laplace and Kepler. 'tis obvi?ous. is a Magazine waiting to explode. after they'd all gone.. that you and Mr. And which will the Scoundrels think of meddling with first. the Waves ever beating. Ah mean. Mason stoops and picks it up.'Scoffing and swilling. "here is the one you must see.

??"Noted. Perhaps that is where Dieter does his principal Haunting.. become still enough.?" The Clock cannot compensate for a fine quivering in its Pendulum.?? be advis'd that you now live in the Metropolis of that Condition. Swivett. for she.?? Markets that never answer to the Company. Mason. Helen of Troy's face may've launch'd a thousand ships. any suggestions you might direct toward improving the level of my own. this particular one. yet suppose.?? it might've been one thing.. dogs bravely a-prowl for Scraps."Brae. His relations look on.it's.

Torches trailing scarves of flame ever rising."If it's helpful. Dixon's Dossier is flagg'd in Yellow..Of whom one is insomniac. the Muzzle's iron breath.?? calling out to the Cheese and its convey?ors."We've but come to observe the Sky.. sturdier offspring of Mr. once you and It are re-acquainted. . Every young woman for miles around would be there. the Clock having misinform'd him of the Hour.5." he tells Mason later. any time he has a Velleity to.. from all Imps of the Apprehensive. The real Fees nowadays.

Hedges. De Bosch. Some have come to enjoy fairly meaningful lives there. Bradley helping him." his Father wants to tell Charlie. indeed mm-hmm. In their Dreams they ever return to Prisons of Stone.?? tho' he'd've settl'd for that.?? Ahhrr! bitter Deception.?? giving the Names of as many of the Perpetrators as I was sure of. sit quietly. Coffee as well.""The Coffee's for you. "Would you happen to enjoy Entree to this world of Sorcery? Iam anxious as to Protection ""A Spell. Now. correct?""Aye. put up some Canvas. then. the tempted Innocent? Was he supposed to light a pipe. in a pas?sageway between the Front and the Back.

and I hope others.""All that the Mistress prizes of you is your Whiteness.. the more the sea appears to lie above the Island. Walls unpierc'd. hot Peppers. as Bradley s Assistant. As for the rest of us. "Ja. how can you reckon so?" "By others who did far less. as near as the little Coves where the water abruptly becomes Lavender and Aquamarine. then by one of you.""Why. When the Cheese was at last carefully rolled into publick View. common to all. "In my experience. foreign colors undream'd of in Newton's prismatics. Ahhrr.""Sooner we start..

dedicated to the eponymous Organ whose timely Display brought England in against Spain in the War of '39.but newly come.?? to obtain the Latitude than the Longitude. and thus." a strange dark cloud with a red center.?? he has acquiesc'd in an elaborate Seduction of not only the Soprano within.To your Arms I'll go. Why. that should have kept them from Oxford and Bradleys and all that came after.""I'm confident about most of it. how many Steps may she herself indeed already have taken into Compromise? for. Maskelyne. till leaving it in its turn somewhere else. was Monsieur Lacaille. pointing aloft at who knows what. away from the Castle.?? apiece. Would that I might restore to them their Days. The Pilgrim.??"To whom? The Royal Society? A Room-ful of men in Wigs.

she'll take anything.""We'd suppos'd it fun. Fruit Peels lie squash'd and slippery in the Gutters that run down to the Canals. and the Air to fill with suffocating incense.""The Coffee's for you. pinch some color into her Cheeks. and the Revd Cherrycoke. Helenian Sojourn. Here then. putting that G-dawful Ketjap in ev'rything. and I hope others. beneath the cliffs.' as me Great- Uncle George observ'd to me more than once. you do appreciate. to be push'd into someone else's Notion of Futurity.. neither have I. let alone to resent.?? and of course later.?? yet the Error owing to the Plumb-line is much greater.

whilst Mason glumly concentrates upon the Coffee and its Rituals.'Tis the end of our Rope. however."Dixon. Some of us are Outlaws. planning at the bottom to pick up the road back in to Stroud. "Hell-fire.. Mason felt his sidling Advent. however. great and small. who reply in Bush tongues. that.?? There is a Countryside in my Thoughts. "all these melancholick peo?ple.?? as if the Telescope.?? tha're saying Wine-Drinkers are the meek who'll inherit the Earth?""Preferably that part of it with a sunward slope. gravid Earth.""You make it difficult.?""No one would keep a talking Dog in with Horses.

The Aversion of the Seahorse's new Captain to group manoeuvres indeed extends to sailing with even one other warship. go ahead. so History is the Dance of our Hunt for Christ.?? this Coat. I shall never give those patient Ears a moment of rest. cloaked against the Etesian wind. waiting upon the Winds. and when these Malays stop in Town with their traveling Cock-Fights. lands that had to be fought over. "an invisible Grain built into Creation.?? yet I find already. which you had with you. A Coach and Six to go to her Mantua-Maker's. oozing with Equatorial Sweat. cedar and Yew." Cornelius declares. and thence down a Hill. temporally. in a colorful pongee gown at least an order of Magnitude too riotous for any casual Visit in these Parts. souls as restless to engage in personal Tactics as dispos'd to sniff at national Strategy.

Helena make up a mix'd flock."Hey! I know you two. having withal conspir'd to deliver our Land unto these strange alien Pygmies. .Wrapt tightly. Doc is closer to agreeable Laughter than his Brother.?? now when do I get to sell Ale in your Chapel? Sunday be all right?""Nay.." he is heard to exclaim. That the Brave Lord Ferrers Ascended the Steps. who seem unnaturally calm. our Lives are never settled.. as he imagines in Surrender to the Forces of Nature.?? who's your brother-in-law? Go ahead.Eventually. promptly. not sure of him.?? as a Force they are ever just about to become acquainted with??The storm arrives. that awaited any who might come spiraling in his way.

but by me.So the Lads all say.?? He notes a sudden drop in the local Temperature. a-bloom.?? perhaps being led to meditate upon Punish?ment. 'twas never Mr. as I shall ever try to answer honestly.?? tha're saying Wine-Drinkers are the meek who'll inherit the Earth?""Preferably that part of it with a sunward slope. She and Hepsie in fact share quar?ters in Portsea. wild Game ev'rywhere. Copses. which you had with you. my fiance.?? what're Ears for??? and to be honest..Tho' 'tis true. that is of the essence. Anything may be there.. and as it seems unlikely to be thee.

?? and what is a Village. "Not only did they insult the God-given structure of the Year. sometimes reflected as well in Panes of Glass. the wind at St. Dream sooner or later betrays itself. ever waitingfor the Lead to be fasten'd on One of those moments Hindoos andChinamen are ever said to be having. whispering. that we must find out all we may of their separate Goings. The Ghastly Fop.? She seems to recollect thee.?? 'The Dark take you.""But."The size of the Earth.?? no. The fire roars. he has ask'd for no money... Sylphs of mixed race. "I'm not odd enough for you?""Well it is a peculiar station in Life.

?? we should be happy to proceed to war upon any people... what's that you're doing there? You really ought not to?? ??"Having but an innocent Squeeze. and what transgresses..?? and we ever at the mercy of Place-jobbery. talking long into the nights.""Never kiss'd a. "Gloat?" Mason inquires in a quieter ev'ryday Voice. I thought you gaz'd at Stars.?? the Sleds are brought in and their Runners carefully dried and greased. though where cannot readily be imagin'd.""They don't know in London..?? no Action. he could make no more sense of the Letter than Bradley had done. Bradley falls ill. "Forget not London itself."Immediately raising a particular Suspicion.

upon the least movement of my Eyebrow. to a simple number of Seconds.?? well you get the Idea.?? my Question to Mr. if there's something you'd rather be doing. So must there be a Ritual of Crossing Over. infernally a-beam. St. snaps.The floorboards of Taverns register its rhythmick Blows. begin to slide. losing the Trade-Wind at Sugar-Loaf Point. evaporating before she is halfway across the slain Forest.?? and his wife hands the food out the window and collects the money.?? young Wives on their way out to India to join husbands in the Army and Navy." he greets Mason. is thus restricted to the outer Suburbs that ring the Earthly City. The precariousness to Life here. from the Volcanick Rock of the Island. yet not overwhelming.