The Golden Compass
The salt air had long since corroded the hinges of our carriage door, so that every time I pushed against it to keep the wind at bay, it groaned with a sound not unlike a man’s last breath, and we moved forward into the grey, endless expanse of the heath, where the sky hung low and heavy as a wet wool blanket, pressing the earth down into silence. I held the loaf of bread in my left hand, the...
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