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And since this shape that rode before Abel Keeling's eyes was a shape in his, Abel Keeling's dream, he, Abel Keeling, was the master of it. His own brooding brain had contrived her, and she was launched upon the illimitable ocean of his own mind.... "And I will not unmindful be Of this, My covenant, passed Twixt Me and you and every flesh Whiles that the world should last," sang Bligh, rapt....
Yes, that was the Law of Bligh's life, to call things the Hand of God; but Abel Keeling's Law was different; no better, no worse, only different. The Hand of God, that drew chips and galleons, must work by some method; and Abel Keeling's eyes were dully on the pipkin again as if he sought the method there....
This do trouble me; but yet it is good luck that the sum is no bigger. He gone, I with my cozen Roger to Westminster Hall; and there we met the House rising: and they have voted my Lord Chief Justice Keeling's proceedings illegal; but that, out of particular respect to him, and the mediation of a great many, they have resolved to proceed no further against him.
He was at home again, instructing his son, young Abel, in the casting of the lead from the skiff they had pulled out of the harbour. "And a half-seven!" the boy seemed to be calling. Abel Keeling's blackened lips muttered: "Excellently well cast, Abel, excellently well cast!" "And a half-seven and a half-seven seven seven "
At one period they punished Dissenters with imprisonment, transportation, and, to use Judge Keeling's elegant expression in his sentence on Bunyan, 'to stretch by the neck for it'; and anon, the very same Government, under the same king, gives them license to dissent!
The sun was yet so pale a buckler of silver through the still white mists that not a cord or timber cast a shadow; and only Abel Keeling's face and hands were black, carked and cinder-black from exposure to his pitiless rays. The galleon was the Mary of the Tower, and she had a frightful list to starboard.
Abel Keeling was one of the new men, the men who swore by the line-ahead, the broadside fire of sakers and demi-cannon, and weeks and months without a landfall. "To Noah and his sons with him God spake, and thus said He: A covenant set I up with you And your posterity " It was Bligh again, wandering somewhere in the waist. Abel Keeling's mind was once more a blank.
Now, said Pantagruel, thou speakest naturally, and so let him go, for the poor Limousin had totally bewrayed and thoroughly conshit his breeches, which were not deep and large enough, but round straight cannioned gregs, having in the seat a piece like a keeling's tail, and therefore in French called, de chausses a queue de merlus. Then, said Pantagruel, St. Alipantin, what civet?
With his leathery hand he smote upon the bell. He waited for the space of a minute, and then cried: "Ahoy!... Ship ahoy!... What ship's that?" We are not conscious in a dream that we are playing a game the beginning and end of which are in ourselves. In this dream of Abel Keeling's a voice replied: "Hallo, it's found its tongue.... Ahoy there! What are you?"
Then a bell seemed to sound in Abel Keeling's ears, and, as if something in the mechanism of his brain had slipped, another picture rose in his fancy the scene when the Mary of the Tower had put out, to a bravery of swinging bells and shrill fifes and valiant trumpets. She had not been a leper-white galleon then.
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