Upon which, O inquired where that country was, of which mention was made.
"Some distance from here; in the air above; the sun that gives light to Pimminee, and Mardi at large." She replied, that if that were the case, she had never beheld it; for such was the construction of her farthingale, that her head could not be thrown back, without impairing its set.

Wherefore, she had always abstained from astronomical investigations.
Hereupon, rude Mohi laughed out.

And that lucky laugh happily relieved Taji from all further necessity of entertaining the Vowels.

For at so vulgar, and in Pimminee, so unwonted a sound, as a genuine laugh, the three startled nymphs fainted away in a row, their round farthingales falling over upon each other, like a file of empty tierces.

But they presently revived.
Meanwhile, without stirring from their mats, the polite young bucks in the aigulettes did nothing but hold semi-transparent leaves to their eyes, by the stems; which leaves they directed downward, toward the disordered hems of the farthingales; in wait, perhaps, for the revelation of an ankle, and its accompaniments.