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  <f307r.P.10;W>     in spite of all that has happened since i still remember -
  <f307r.P.11;W>     that vigil very distinctly the black and silent observatory -
  <f307r.P.12;W>     the shadowed lantern throwing a feeble glow upon the floor -
  <f307r.P.13;W>     in the corner the steady ticking of the clockwork of the tele -
  <f307r.P.14;W>     scope the little slit in the roofan oblong profundity with -
  <f307r.P.15;W>     the stardust streaked across it ogilvy moved about invisible -
  <f307r.P.16;W>     but audible looking through the telescope one saw a circle -
  <f307r.P.17;W>     of deep blue and the little round planet swimming in the -
  <f307r.P.18;W>     field it seemed such a little thing so bright and small and -
  <f307r.P.19;W>     still faintly marked with transverse stripes and slightly -
  <f307r.P.20;W>     flattened from the perfect round but so little it was so -
  <f307r.P.21;W>     silvery warma pinshead of light it was as if it quivered -
  <f307r.P.22;W>     but really this was the telescope vibrating with the activity -
  <f307r.P.23;W>     of the clockwork that kept the planet in view =

  <f307r.P.24;W>     as i watched the planet seemed to grow larger and smaller -
  <f307r.P.25;W>     and to advance and recede but that was simply that my eye -
  <f307r.P.26;W>     was tired forty millions of miles it was from usmore than -
  <f307r.P.27;W>     forty millions of miles of void few people realise the im -
  <f307r.P.28;W>     mensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe -
  <f307r.P.29;W>     swims =

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