The astral plane, its scenery, inhabitants and phenomena

It had been arranged in the morning that I should bring the boat up to three miles above Reading (утром условились, что я проведу лодку на три мили выше Рэдинга). Well, here we were, ten miles above Reading (и вот мы десятью милями выше Рэдинга)! Surely it was now their turn again (конечно, теперь была снова их очередь). habitu™ [hЌxbtjue] exhibition [,eksxb3(Ќ)n] The river becomes very lovely from a little above Reading. The railway rather spoils it near Tilehurst, but from Mapledurham up to Streatley it is glorious. A little above Mapledurham lock you pass Hardwick House, where Charles I. played bowls. The neighbourhood of Pangbourne, where the quaint little Swan Inn stands, must be as familiar to the habitu™s of the Art Exhibitions as it is to its own inhabitants. My friends' launch cast us loose just below the grotto, and then Harris wanted to make out that it was my turn to pull. This seemed to me most unreasonable. It had been arranged in the morning that I should bring the boat up to three miles above Reading ...»