The Golden Compass

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The loom counted the seconds in the clack of its shuttle, a rhythm that had worn Thomas Vane’s left ear into a hollow ache. Twelve years old, five feet tall, and already his hands smelled of lanolin and iron dust, Thomas stood at the edge of the third row where the light from the high windows fell in slanted, dusty beams. He needed the six shillings a week, not for himself, but for the morphine...

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