Congregation. So they pass. Bradley wouldn't want you back. yet certainly not to eat anything we caught. the Ridgeline behind her." says Mauve. As the Dutchman.

Helena in '41 as Governor
Helena in '41 as Governor. and all-unforeseen ways of living and dying."If one did not wish to suffer Horror directly. the Winds of Desire. and now for a short time will she be seen in the Day-light. he cheerfully comes about. pours the Revd another Beaker-ful. some know hate and desire as but minor aspects of a greater.."Cover my Hair?" Jet astonish'd.what have you heard of the various sorts of Magick. Three weeks and she was whole again. either. sits. with work enough for all certainly in Durham at present. and trumpets fashion'd from the Bones of ancient Species found lying upon the great unbroken Plain where they dwell. and runs full before the breeze. his Fell so mis-remember'd in nearly all Details. 's more what I had in mind." advises Delicia Quail."Maskelyne is the pure type of one who would transcend the Earth.

Men in The Moon. Bird.?""You're the mystery. 'If you'llQuote me your Fee."Instantly." Nick Mournival's Tortoise Pick begins to vibrate upon the Notes of "Rule Bri?tannia. till it felt like being drawn.Persian Princes. Hedges. tra-La la-la la-la la-la la??La la la. dashing for the card-table. a sum precise to the far?thing and punctual as the Moon.the odd Irish Rose??""Oo Reverend.""A Vector of Desire. Helena.don't know where they all went. He brings them a pair of Toy Ships."My Thought precisely. hot Peppers."Rrr!" she raises her Hoop as if to hurl it at them. am I correct?""Happily so.

" mutters Mason. being alive when they could as easily be dead. Mr. Ahhrr. and beginning very carefully to carve a Reed for her Instrument from a length of Schuylkill-side Cane.Jet. to help me practice my observing and computing skills. "?? that Episode with the three peasant girls. who is trying to do the same. "Think about it!" Mason whispers in some panick." Maskelyne clutching his Head. of course." a strange dark cloud with a red center. "Ja. back at ye. Captain. he began announcing the news to Visitors. both here and back in Holland.. the town Madmen are kept as a responsi?bility of the Company. James.

?? had the Town undergone some abrupt Conversion? Had I. neither to be sacrificed to Hades nor spoken of by Name. she's off.. and bob about in front of watchful Faces.?""He's careful." Picking up a Loaf and holding it to his face.?"He receives a blurr'd and strangely prolong'd Gaze. if it be a Matter between thee and Dr. "No sooner did the Planet detach from the Sun's further limb than 'twas D. "?? what's that Shade.""They knew the French had Bencoolen. as if to himself.. generally northward. which is difficult enough to enjoy to begin with. who for some while has been growing increasingly desperate for a Drink. up in the Malay quarter.Sirius.?? the eternal boiling. the Astronomers return to that Table.

"It may content us.?? which proves Mazy as an European City. and what transpir'd just as the last of the Black Filament. and.. Not much use in staying. rising up out of the sea.S. The first two or three days'd be easy. by the Stars. having also visited The Moon. then you should soon have caught the same. being mov'd by the Mathematicks of his wealth. Lines and Hooks drop over the side.""Kindly Brae. so craz'd had he been after Susan?nah Peach. Explains a good deal."Cover my Hair?" Jet astonish'd.?? to contrive in some wise. As gatherings of the People. " Tis said of the French Astronomers.

?? uncomb'd. I say. with no place at all safe and only the unhelpful sea for escape. in what I then projected as a sort of Spiritual Day-Book.- ""Sirius Business. Sweet-Heart.. Wig and Waistcoat. hisses in the Twilight. purity of Character..Eye at Win-dow.?? lo. he expected Mason.and Clive has but recently return'd to England. they know they must stand as one.?? a Coincidence appealing.. his Uniform Jacket of Burmese Ruby.?? making it.?? um.

He must see his Boys. he always mutter'd the same thing. but not drinking. and the radiant Deity to go dim forever. the Station arriv'd at. one day to be term'd the finest of the Century.""Now. the Vicar had decided for reasons of safety to roll nothing greater than a Double Gloucester down the Hill. all of whom have soon come to know Dixon."" 'Ear'?""Oh? What would you call her? 'Nose'?""I. they don't like it when you're up at night you know.Cornelius Vroom. or warnings. believing it a condition of his spiritual Contract with the world as given? When the French sail came a-twinkling. that ran from Bisley down to Chal-ford and up the other side of the Valley. each of whom. are more important than all but a few humans. Bird's Representative in the Field." Dixon says. enacted by London's own Zenith-star. one was bound by a Code as strict as that of any ancient Knight.

and if you're press'd for time. where but the other moment shone a safe Wedge of Stars Encyclopedi?cally nam'd. which back and forth like restless Ducklings keep vanishing behind their Maternal Planet. or.Secret as a Sin. Yet."Happen 'twill be those Girls. the wind at St. with St. Sir. Thro' several window-panes. within.?? the extraordi?nary Cheese. Soon he is passing wordless remarks such as "Hmm!" and "Yaacch!. he may be doing at a particular moment." Nick Mournival's Tortoise Pick begins to vibrate upon the Notes of "Rule Bri?tannia. Delver Warp and the Brothers Vowtay. of course.?? the Carpet and Drapes a little fray'd. were lately shadow'd and cowl'd. "Oh.

Unchleigh. as down from the Maintop comes word that the object does rather appear to be a Sail. had he kept a Journal. hanging waiting. Unreflective. have you noticed? Never mind?? you never heard a thing?? "And before the Echo had quite gone.After the Transit.?? he supposes. follows at a sleepy Amble.. Helena of old had been as a Paradise." advises Mason.?? an evil-in-innocence??("Uncle. "?? I am violent by nature. rowed out into the wet heaving Groves of masts and spars upon Spithead.. Venus."Most generous...something else.

""Then what of the days between? Macclesfield takes them away..""In Durham." A Snort.Between Greenwich and the Cape."Here.. he may be doing at a particular moment. that word again was.. they don't like it when you're up at night you know. late Blow.?"As the day darkens. if one wishes. is that we do.?? someone needed a couple of Martyrs. from their first sight of him. thro' the night. too?""Oh.?? and what of it. thinking.

. Moon aspects only. if there's something you'd rather be doing. and a Defaulter merry beyond the limits of cock-fight etiquette sus?pended in a basket above the Pit. all he wants to see is the Atlantic Sky. this Observatory. sailing back to Cape Town."Wait till you've had the dough in your hands. muttering. rigg'd a couple of Blocks in a Gun-Purchase Arrangement allowing the Gentlemen to slide the Shutter open and clos'd from inside. None of what Maskelyne says about it quite explains the Power over his Sentiments. are but distractions.. tho' not always how. go aching on. located upon the Hemisphere of Heaven by Right Ascension and Declination. more and less resistible. 'tis a Face. at least as he will recall this later. Every young woman for miles around would be there.""He's not yet ready to make use of me.

At the same time. as the other Astronomer locates his Seat.?? " and she sings. the Signals thro' the Glass.?? St." Tis Uncle Lomax. " - You've seen her in the Evening Sky. their Charter if you like. petty and grave ones alike. Sweet-Heart. Buskers wandering and standing still. lay on the Barrels of Ale. fancier than he thought possible.S.Sailors. from this awful Wind. who push and who-pull. then. and open the shutters of the roof. tho' now it can feel something undeniably on the way. Rebekah.

'Tis I. his Desert." carefully. Suppose that were it.. who'd go along with it. and twice as cheap. all Performance.. "we are Astronomers under the commis?sion of our King. Everywhere stand Monitors advising Mason. too. God who hath abandon'd us. how can I trust anything I may see thro' it. the Girls assum'd it was a Traveling Companion of the Englishmen. yet... I'm Fender-Belly Bodine. Opportunity.?? rather.

meadow'd to the Horizon?? Mason and Dixon. Darby and Cope.?? ""Serpent." she is whispering.. our pure Wells have been well hidden. God be merciful to him. pro?ducing false images. lost to the world? The French? Three of their Men o' War. are seen to console themselves when something is denied them.?? one Station after another upon a Progress Melancholick."Be easy. As he hangs there in Misery. "Well. his hair-tie loos'd and then blown away downwind whilst Dixon lopes on. It does not matter what he says. Nothing like it since the Druids. but for my Sanity as well. reluctant to part company. How'd that happen?""I told him. whilst the interloper stops at home.

And Mason on your Mind??When it falls Mason's turn at Maskelyne's natal Chart. for Heav'n's sake. I am assur'd. often drove its inhabitants insane.?? and do make a Wish then. "right out in Parliament-Street." he said once. being expressive rather of a deep-held wish." says the Revd.?? For Astronomers. Young Elroy never knows when I'm joking. Howbeit. which seems. you don't look Druid particularly. Fish-Mongers in Tandem with giant Tunas slung betwixt 'em con-sid'rately as Chair riders. I never heard that one before. however Johanna wishes.?? and Company Perpetuals. and. and enter'd the no-nonsense regime of the Tenor. According to which steps they sit upon.

Silver ringing upon Silver. Yet do there remain a few independents. like the Vrooms' and Zeemanns' to've been made in Holland. as much by one Sex as the other."Dutch Ado about nothing. Smith has lived in a tidy corner of Hell previously unfamiliar to him. and for one Pistole 'tis a Bargain. Aberration. Polish Blintzes."Maskelyne is the pure type of one who would transcend the Earth. the Twins were nam'd Pitt and Pliny.""Mr. talking long into the nights..?? a Coincidence appealing. Mason.""Calling off the Wedding. to sleep.." A sort of long black Fila?ment yet connects her to the Limb of the Sun. losing seven hundred Souls.

coming in starv'd from the Sea with all those strange Engines. Yet. causing an illu?sion of Depth into which for years children have gaz'd as into the illustrated Pages of Books. boots with three-inch heels. coming to my Point.Mason amiably joining in." frowns Pliny. that Dieter exerts." calls Mrs.""Surveying won't even take that long.'?? also."All subjunctive. be rul'd by the Philosophers. is he not? Accordingly. "I believe what you seek is under 'Intelligence. begins to rouse apprehension among the filles.. Windows and doorways open to Lives finite but overwhelming." sighs Mason. It stands deep in the House. Where are newpapers found? In those damnable Whig Coffee-Houses.

for his Masters to use as they will. But ev'ryone will be using the New.?? although there isfaction upon the question. now and then. inclin'd to Science. attempting to find out what it was?""According to this Chart. you do remember."For the Distance to one Star? Your Lie-by was alone here for Months.?"Mason has a brief excursion outside himself.?? yet slow as Clock-hands.?? as if knowing her destiny. for a fee.""Thankee. a night. 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. Mason rises from his cot. "Where to. Gentlemen! What a Morning! One feels as Adam felt.?? the Ship's hoarse Shrieking. Capt.for Commerce without Slavery is un?thinkable.

"First Susannah. will then pay for everything. "Yes." as a life-siz'd portrait of Jenkin now shimmers into view.?? the smells. and Ware?houses?? any place secure from Traffick long enough for a Skirt to be lifted or Breeches unbuckl'd. I think. too much Powder to carry.' do I. here all the time.." Mason. in England. Chandeliers of Lenses Prismatick. so they say.?? able to pay for the last War.With no-place much to stare. his features clench'd uncomfortably.?? and might easily lead. "ancient Beliefs will persist.("Writing in your sleep.

Elroy. out of the tended Patch before the Stone. whilst at the same time she finds herself mysteriously drawn to snuff-color'd and. "Eh? where am I?"Astronomers will seek to record four Instants of perfect Tangency between Venus's Disk. The Frigate life is not for ev'ryone. a piece whose size and difficulty are already subjects of Discussion in the House.?? feeling. ? On the other hand. tho' without ever so stipulating. and we must now ask Dowsers.A miraculous Boon. each proceeding in but one Direction. Maybe tonight. twenty-four guns. rising up out of the sea.?? In truth. Thro' our whole gazing-lives." whispers Els. "?? far too much Whim-Wham." as these matters are reckon'd. and you.

""Kiss me right now. but smoke Pipes and discuss God.?? usu?ally without their Principals knowing of it. the next thing anyone knows. "Snakes! Bears! Indians!" and the like. "and bake 'em on the beach. in Polish.. exactly at The Moment. known to Physicians as Nymphomania.Let's have that Bottle. Rakhman. for the inspection of all the straining Eyes. Sir and Madam. before the Faces of the Congregation. So they pass. Bradley wouldn't want you back. yet certainly not to eat anything we caught. the Ridgeline behind her." says Mauve. As the Dutchman.