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had a habit of going round to atheists' houses and smashing their windows.
There was a faint sound, hardly louder than the noise of the bees in the rosemary by the road. It had a curiously level, in accordance with the laws of conservation of energy. So it bared its fangs and charged.
"What a strange creature," Twoflower remarked,
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lofur's palace was repulsive: rancid seal fat, dung, blood, refuse of every sort. Lyra pushed back her hood to be cooler, but she couldn't help wrinkling her nose. She hoped bears couldn't read human expressions. There were iron brackets every few yards, holding blubber lamps, and in their flaring shadows it wasn't always easy to see where she with damp, and there was one stone bench for furniture. In the farthest corner there was a heap of rags she took for bedding, and that was all she could see.
Lyra sat down, with Pantalaimon on her shoulder, and felt in her clothes for the alethiomewas treading, either.Finally they stopped outside a heavy door of iron. A guard bear pulled back a massive bolt, and the sergeant suddenly swung his paw at Lyra, knocking her head over heels through the doorway. Before she could scramble up, she heard the door being bolted behind her.It was profoundly dark, but Pantalaimon became a firefly, and shed a tiny glow around them. They were in a narrow cell where the walls dripped ter.

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"A research student called McKay," said one of the men. "But there are automatic mechanisms to prevent this sort of thing happening-"
"They "It did. Unfortunately, it rang when everyone was outside, taking part in the fire drill."
"But when you went back inside-"
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confused. Pantalaimon leaped down to comfort her.
Lyra worked quickly, and within a few minutes every daemon was free. Some were trying to speak, and they clustered around her feet and even tried to pluck at her leggings, though the taboo held them back. She could tell why, poor things; they missed the heavy solid warmth of their humans' bodies; just as Pantalaimon would have done, they footprints you've made; I'll cover them up. Hurry now...."
"Oh, please! Before you go! Witches...They do fly, don't they? I wasn't dreaming when I saw them flying the other night?"
"Yes, child; why?"
"Could they pull a balloon?"longed to press themselves against a heartbeat."Now, quick," said the goose. "Lyra, you must run back and mingle with the other children. Be brave, child. The gyptians are coming as fast as they can. I must help these poor daemons to find their people...." He came closer and said quietly, "But they'll never be one again. They're sundered forever. This is the most wicked thing I have ever seen....Leave the

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bridge, and white light at the masthead; and three or four men on deck, working urgently at things she couldn't see.
She hurried up the wooden gangway ahead of Farder Coram, and looked around with excitement. Pantalaimon became a Jack Verhoeven's dead, perhaps you've heard. And his boys captured."
"We have bad news too," said Farder Coram, and told of their encounter with the flying spirits.
John Faa shook his great head, but didn't reproach them.
"Where is the creature now?" he said.
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Now Lyra was completely dazed.
"Yes," she said. "They said I was-they said they-they said Lord Asriel put me there because my mother and father died in an airship accident. That's what they told me."
"Ah, did ," John Faa went on. "When he was a young man, Lord Asriel went exploring all over the North, and came back with a great fortune. And he was a high-spirited man, quick to anger, a passionate man.
"And your mother, she was passionate too. Not so well born as him, but a clever woman. A Scholar, even, and those who saw her said she was very beautiful. She and your father, they fell in love as soon's they met.they. Well now, child, I'm a going to tell you a story, a true story. I know it's true, because a gyptian woman told me, and they all tell the truth to John Faa and Farder Coram. So this is the truth about yourself, Lyra. Your father never perished in no airship accident, because your father is Lord Asriel."Lyra could only sit in wonder."Here's how it came about