Monday 16 February 2009

George Inness Sunset

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Within five minutes Lyra had told her everything about her half-wild life: her favorite routes over the rooftops, the battle of the claybeds, the time she and Roger had caught and roasted a rook, her intention to capture a to each other. Lyra ignored completely the Librarian on her other side and spent the whole meal talking to Mrs. Coulter.
When the ladies withdrew for Coffee, Dame Hannah said, "Tell me, Lyra-are they going to send you to school?"
Lyra looked blank. "I dun-I don't know," she said. "Probably not," she added for safety. "I wouldn't want to put them to any trouble," she went narrowboat from the gyptians and sail it to Abingdon, and so on. She even (looking around and lowering her voice) told her about the trick she and Roger had played on the skulls in the crypt."And these ghosts came, right, they came to my bedroomwithout their heads! They couldn't talk except for making sort of gurgling noises, but I knew what they wanted all right. So I went down next day and put their coins back. They'd probably have killed me else.""You're not afraid of danger, then?" said Mrs. Coulter admiringly. They were at dinner by this time, and as Lyra had hoped, sitting next

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