He [a midshipman] lords it over those below him, while lorded over himself by his superiors. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule.

As far as space is concerned, Mary Lamb finds herself at the farthest margin of society - among tramps - when the novel begins.

Come on, let vs deale wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to passe that when there falleth out any warre, they ioyne also vnto our enemies, and fight against vs, and so get them vp out of the land.

She took pictures of the fragmented copter and fellow survivors, then handed the camera to one of her crashmates to take pictures of her.