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"I see no call for that," Temeraire said coolly "We are sure to ons sometime, whom I ah you should have to translate between him and Iskierka," Ha," Temeraire said "I certainly do not care in the least if he does wish to speak with Iskierka; although he can scarcely have anything very intelligent to say, anyway"

"He gave me his share of the tunny, yesterday," Iskierka said on deck, later that afternoon, "and if he likes to talk to me, he may; I think he is perfectly polite"

She nodded to Maila, a gesture Temeraire felt was quite uncalled-for, and rather like fraternizing with the enenation Maila puffed hi," slowly and carefully

"Oh! So you can speak properly," Iskierka said "Why haven’t you, before?"

"Only a little, now," Maila said

"He has been eavesdropping on my lessons," Temeraire said to Ha the least consciousness after; I cannot think lish?" Ha excessively low: nearly inaudible here on deck, where there were people shouting in the rigging everywhere to make it difficult to hear, when he would yell so frantically aloft Teht older dragons could not, save your breed--how splendid that he can as well! Would he perhaps consent to speak with me, do you think--"

Te splendid in it, and in any case Maila steadfastly continued to ignore Haht have expected Haht, to leave off his atte all the louder in his next lesson for Teh Temeraire tried to fly at a farther distance, Maila kept close after hi in shamelessly where no-one wanted hines said to Teondeck to breakfast with Genevieve

Te enough to satisfy "Yes; it is groarh to realize that De Guignes had spoken to him in Quechua, rather than in French: rather a ht reproachfully

"That is a pity," Hae, "but I suppose we could not conceal it forever Do you think youaloft with you? I e, to read to you--"

"You had ive thereat hand at studying "But perhaps we had better stop, if the French do not like it; anyway I aes does not need to be always having lessons, to learn a new one," he added, looking coldly across the deck at where Maila was sunning hines did not make any objection, and after a feary hours Ha aloud to Te his English words far more slowly and clearly than was at all necessary

"I cannotat all," Laurence said to Granby at their sh of the stars to be nearly sure they were sailing northwesterly, for no reason he could i another week to the journey, at least, and worse if the ship should get herself becalhts aboard

By Thibaux’s courtesy, they had none of thelass; three days later, during his airing, it showed hi in the distance

"Perhaps there will be soiving up a week, to lay in soave no evidence of particular fecundity: so a central peak, which could not be convenient to dig through; and the visible shore lass lens: a scattering of pal There were soons first set upon theh nuht In any case he could not understand the French ht as easily have put the British dragons on shorter commons if they feared at all for their own beasts’ health

De Guignes joined hi "Ah, Captain Laurence, you see we have co his hands behind his back and studying it ons rising and falling over it in their hunting

"Sir, I do," Laurence said, polite and baffled

De Guignes nodded "I am desolate," he said, "but here we must part, for a little while; I am assured," he added to Laurence’s stare, "that there is fresh water--assured of it; M Vercieux, the ship’s master, has once before made landfall here--"

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