I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?

A letter from Mr. [Brian Houghton] Hodgson to Mr. Bayley, was then read, giving an outline of the theocracy of the Buddha system of Nepal. […] According to the information now communicated, the northern Buddhas acknowledge four sets of divine beings, or of superhuman objects of veneration. The first of these is, contrary to the generally supposed atheistical tendency of the faith, one primæval and uncreated deity. This first Buddha manifested five of his attributes, as five secondary Buddhas; in one of whom, Amitabha, or the 'immeasurably splendid,' in Prakrit and Pali, Amitabo, we recognise the Amito of the Japanese.

'Twas not dumb chance, that, to discover the Fougade or Powder-plot, contrived a miscarriage in the Letter.

They had to run for his father and then launch a skiff into the slobby ice, half poling, half hauling toward the spot where he'd last been seen […]