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"They have matters well in hand, I assure you," he said to Mrs Pemberton that afternoon, rearded his cold dinner without enthusiash the s: it was deeply foreign to sit to his meat while the ship’s existence rose and fell without hiered for five, following thele break in the weather long enough to sleep, and with a great ive them false hope that here, at last, had coht of the fourth day, and a fresh icy howling of wind swept over theard and bloodshot by the wheel, and shouted in his ear, "Tom, do you let me send Lord Purbeck to sleep, and I will second you; when he is rested he may spell you in turn"

Riley nodded after a moment, dully; when Laurence went to hiue but only stumbled away half-asleep already Laurence did not know the ine possible aboard a single vessel between the aviators and the sailors, none of whoons But he knew the Allegiance well enough by now to direct them, and panto in all their ears at once

"Surely it must almost be over, now," Temeraire said, when Laurence cahtened for a short while "We ht be let up, and stay aloft until the last of it has blown itself out--"

But he spoke low and hopelessly, enervated with fatigue and cold, and his eyes lidded down to slits; when Laurence said, "Not yet, my dear; pray have patience," Temeraire subsided without further coullet by hand: the galley fires were still out, for safety

Iskierka, sheltered froth of their confineile and Temeraire had not effectively forht of their bodies, anchoring the restraints, Laurence did not doubt she would have flung off the chains and likely cast the entire ship ahoo despite all Granby could do to persuade her to calm

"Oh! Not yet? It will never end, and I will not stay here, I will not," she said, furiously, and began to try and throw herself back against the tarpaulin

"Why are you ile said drowsily, and Laurence saw Deile yawned, and then heaved his head and one hed out, pinning her to the deck with his weight

Iskierka whipped her head around and snapped at his nose, hissing, but there was no satisfaction to be had: Kulingile was already gone back to sleep, his tongue licking the fresh sheep’s blood fro unconscious strokes "I will not," she repeated, angrily, but ceased to fight the chains; instead she flung herself flat upon the deck and glared fury at the clouds

But by the next , even her spirits had been defeated by the ceaseless storoat that was offered her, and left half of it in the tub; Te at all, and barely opened his eyes to acknowledge when Laurence cao on like this," Granby said to Laurence, one on deck again "Perhaps we had better let the forever, I suppose"

He did not sound very convinced, and indeed in the moment it seemed entirely believable that the stor for the chances of their keeping in coe any sort of rendezvous; we have not the least notion where we are, nor will until we see the stars again," Laurence said

"Then ive the hot to eat, if ere careful about it," Granby said "It is bad when they are refusing their"

Laurence could not regard this suggestion with anything but dis his head in--the aviators would never learn the polite fiction of failing to hear as said on the other side of a bulkhead, aboard ship--estion that coals laid in the bottoreat cauldrons would do to make some sort of hot soup, without the risk of open flame

But Riley was asleep, and Purbeck would not countenance anything of the sort "You in with," he said flatly, without even the little courtesy he ordinarily offered Laurence, "and save us wondering how long it will take; and you daht by the lee inaround the deck They must wait like all of us"

"If I were sure Iskierka would wait, I shouldn’t ask," Granby said, with some heat

"If she is run soherself, you may say so, and I will run one of the bow-chasers up to her and ill put a ball in her head before she sends us to the bottom," Purbeck returned coldly; Laurence had to seize Granby’s arm and draw him away

Even when Riley returned to the deck, however, he was littlesuch a risk, in the least," he said, "and I wonder at your asking," he added, even his enerous tele to keep the ship afloat

"I arily, as Laurence towed hi as though ere asking for our own pleasure The ship is in with; what else are they here for? Put a ball in her head, indeed; I would shoot him, first"

He did not even try to speak quietly, and besides the stor their voices to compensate for their own lack; his words fell into another brief lull in the roaring teo Riley stiffened; Purbeck looked disdainfully; and where the continuing storht have shortly erased the memory under the pressure of necessity, in that ht in five days spilled down upon the deck