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And so it might have been, if a certain cliff-ghast, busy feasting on a half-dead warrior, had not looked up just as a random searchlight caught the side of the crystal litter.
Something stirred in the cliff-ghast's memory. He paused, one hand on the warm liver, and as his brother knocked him aside, the it, and now Lord Asriel was climbing down into a series of caverns and tunnels extending a long way below the fortress.
It wasn't totally dark, as he'd thought. There was a faint source of illumination, like a stream of billions of tiny particles, faintly glowing. They flowed steadily down the tunnel like a river of light.
"Dust," he said to his daemon.
He had never seen it with the naked eye, but then he had never recollection of a babbling Arctic fox came to his mind.At once he spread his leathery wings and bounded upward, and a moment later the rest of the troop followed.Xaphania and her angels had searched diligently all the night and some of the morning, and finally they had found a minute crack in the mountainside to the south of the fortress, which had not been there the day before. They had explored it and enlarged

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She lowered the aircraft delicately onto the roof, letting its six feet find their own purchase and adjust themselves to keep the cabin level. She was beginning to love this hollow of the cloisters, the square tower where the President of the Consistorial Court of Discipline had his lodging. She had visited the college three times before; she knew that the ridges and gables and chimneys of the roof concealed plenty of hiding places, even for something as large as the intention craft.Flying slowly above the tiles, which

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find out."
"But why?"
Lyra looked at Will and saw him nod.
"Well," she said, "before I met Will, long before I was asleep, I led this friend into danger, and he was killed. I thought I was rescuing to a daemon when death comes. It vanishes. What else can there be to live on after that?"
"We're going to go and find out," said Lyra. "And now we've told you, I'll take your resonator lodestone."
She held out her hand, and leopard-Pantalaimon stood, tail swinging slowly, to reinforce her demand. Tialys unslung the pack from his back and laid it in her palm. It was surprisingly heavy, no burden for her, of course, but she marveled at his strength.him, only I was making things worse. And while I was asleep I dreamed of him and I thought maybe I could make amends if I went where he's gone and said I was sorry. And Will wants to find his father, who died just when he found him before. See, Lord Asriel wouldn't think of that. Nor would Mrs. Coulter. If we went to him we'd have to do what he wants, and he wouldn't think of Roger at all, that's my friend who died, it wouldn't matter to him. But it matters to me. To us. So that's what we want to do.""Child," said Tialys, "when we die, everything is over. There is no have seen death. You've seen dead bodies, and you've seen what happens

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We're in a cave. Don't move too fast, you'll get dizzy. Just take it carefully. Find your strength. You've been asleep for days and days."
Her eyes were still heavy, and she was racked by deep yawns, but she was desperate to be awake, and he helped her up, putting shoulder in thanks. "I got here as soon as I could," Will went on, "but some soldiers did, too. I don't know who they are. We'll get out as soon as we can."
Outside, the noise and confusion were reaching a height; one of the gyropters had taken a fusillade from a zeppelin's machine gun while the riflemen were jumping out on the cliff top, and it burst into flames, not only killing the crew but also preventing the remaining gyropters from her arm over his shoulder and taking much of her weight. Ama watched timidly, for now that the strange girl was awake, she was nervous of her. Will breathed in the scent of Lyra's sleepy body with a happy satisfaction: she was here, she was real.They sat on a rock. Lyra held his hand and rubbed her eyes."What's happening, Will?" she whispered."Ama here got some powder to wake you up," he said, speaking very quietly, and Lyra turned to the girl, seeing her for the first time, and put her hand on Ama's

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Spying about with sharp eyes
Like a tiger with insatiable craving.
That seemed encouraging. She read on, following the commentary through the mazy paths it led her on, until she came to: Keeping still is the mountain; it is a bypath; it means little stones, doors, and openings.
She had to guess. The mention of "openings" recalled the mysterious window in the air through which she had entered this world; , lying hazy in the evening light. To her right a scree of small rocks and gravel sloped up to a cliff of crumbling limestone.
Wearily she hoisted her rucksack again and set her foot on the next flat stone, but before she even transferred her weight, she stopped. The light was catching something curious, and she shaded her eyes against the glare from the scree and tried to find it again.
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CAR salesmen, real estate agents and investment bankers are among the most likely to lose their jobs this year, a new study says.Bricklayers, catering contractors, boat builders, tyre manufacturers, prawn fishermen and some miners also will do it hard.
The findings looks good for vets, childcare workers, community health care providers and nursing Home staff.
Nursing Homes will be a boom industry, with the number of over-70s moving into care set to surge and the baby boomers to follow.
The ageing boomers will also keep radiographers and other people in diagnostic imaging busy as they will need more tests to keep them on their feet. come from Business analysts IBIS World's survey of industries most at risk in 2009.Anyone connected with the international tourism industry may be wise not to make to many long-term plans.The study predicts traffic from key markets such as China, Japan, the US and most of Europe will fall dramatically.On the other hand the future

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woman who usually looks just like the one he married in the first place. We’re telling women, ‘Get some pleasure.’ ”
Contrary to popular images of French women who are liberated sex machines, the authors of a study on sexual habits published earlierhave fantasies, but in reality, they lead sexual lives much more constrained than men. This creates tensions — women are supposed to be liberated, but we still have inequality. A man who has five partners is considered normal. A woman who does the same is considered loose.”
Take the case of Catherine Millet, the 60-year-old art critic and author of the 2001 best-selling memoir, “The this year concluded that the sexual practices of the French are fairly predictable.For example, the study, based on interviews of 12,364 people age 18 to 69, said that 73 percent of women and 59 percent of men believe that a man’s sexual needs are biologically higher than those of women.“The way in which French women live their lives is very different from what we see in the media,” said Nathalie Bajos, director of research at the French National InstituteMedical Research and an author of the report. “Sure, women

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Good-morning, miss!... How well you look this morning!..."
And the Children patted her like anything.
Tylô kept watching the Cat from the other end of the room: But the Cat, who was dignified even when still an animal, now thought herself called to the loftiest destinies. She considered that the time had come to raise an insuperable barrier between herself and the Dog, who had never been more than an ill-bred person in her eyes; and, stepping back in disdain, she just said:
"Sir, I don't know you."
"Now that she's standing on her hind-legs like a man," he muttered, "she looks just like the Devil, with her pointed ears, her long tail and her dress as black as ink!" And he could not help growling between his teeth. "She's also like the village chimney-sweep," he went on, "whom I loathe and detest and whom I shall never take for a real man, whatever my little gods may say... It's lucky," he added, with a sigh, "that I know more about a good many things than they do!"
But suddenly, no longer able to master himself, he flew at the Cat and shouted, with a loud laugh that was more like a roar:
"I'm going to frighten Tylette! Bow, wow, wow!"