The Golden Compass
The rain in London did not wash things clean; it merely made the grime slicker, turning the cobblestones of the East End into mirrors of rot that reflected the gaslight in trembling, yellow pools. Arthur Pendelton stood beneath the awning of a shuttered chandler’s shop, his trench coat heavy with water, his fingers raw from the cold. He was a man who had once believed in the rigid architecture...
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