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I

did

not

wait

to

be

told

twice

.

"

And

now

,

"

said

I

,

"

what

are

we

to

do

?

"

"

Wait

,

"

he

said

.

"

Wait

?

"

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"

Of

course

We

shall

have

to

wait

until

our

air

gets

warm

again

,

and

then

this

glass

will

clear

.

We

ca

n't

do

anything

till

then

.

It

's

night

here

yet

;

we

must

wait

for

the

day

to

overtake

us

.

Meanwhile

,

do

n't

you

feel

hungry

?

"

For

a

space

I

did

not

answer

him

,

but

sat

fretting

.

I

turned

reluctantly

from

the

smeared

puzzle

of

the

glass

and

stared

at

his

face

.

"

Yes

,

"

I

said

,

"

I

am

hungry

.

I

feel

somehow

enormously

disappointed

.

I

had

expected

--

I

do

n't

know

what

I

had

expected

,

but

not

this

.

"

I

summoned

my

philosophy

,

and

rearranging

my

blanket

about

me

sat

down

on

the

bale

again

and

began

my

first

meal

on

the

moon

.

I

do

n't

think

I

finished

it

--

I

forget

.

Presently

,

first

in

patches

,

then

running

rapidly

together

into

wider

spaces

,

came

the

clearing

of

the

glass

,

came

the

drawing

of

the

misty

veil

that

hid

the

moon

world

from

our

eyes

.

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We

peered

out

upon

the

landscape

of

the

moon

.

As

we

saw

it

first

it

was

the

wildest

and

most

desolate

of

scenes

.

We

were

in

an

enormous

amphitheatre

,

a

vast

circular

plain

,

the

floor

of

the

giant

crater

.

Its

cliff-like

walls

closed

us

in

on

every

side

.

From

the

westward

the

light

of

the

unseen

sun

fell

upon

them

,

reaching

to

the

very

foot

of

the

cliff

,

and

showed

a

disordered

escarpment

of

drab

and

greyish

rock

,

lined

here

and

there

with

banks

and

crevices

of

snow

.

This

was

perhaps

a

dozen

miles

away

,

but

at

first

no

intervening

atmosphere

diminished

in

the

slightest

the

minutely

detailed

brilliancy

with

which

these

things

glared

at

us

.

They

stood

out

clear

and

dazzling

against

a

background

of

starry

blackness

that

seemed

to

our

earthly

eyes

rather

a

gloriously

spangled

velvet

curtain

than

the

spaciousness

of

the

sky

.

The

eastward

cliff

was

at

first

merely

a

starless

selvedge

to

the

starry

dome

.

No

rosy

flush

,

no

creeping

pallor

,

announced

the

commencing

day

.

Only

the

Corona

,

the

Zodiacal

light

,

a

huge

cone-shaped

,

luminous

haze

,

pointing

up

towards

the

splendour

of

the

morning

star

,

warned

us

of

the

imminent

nearness

of

the

sun

.

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