d ts ;Usually girls dance togetoo so ask t t kno, and by t time alking... And you kno is  once;  on talking and took a bit of marzipan and  gently put it in my moutrying to smile, and blus for t, for tle way ouc;

    As Mary said t, Lyra felt sometrange o  as if so a great  kno  ots coming on. S trembling as Mary  on:

    quot;And I t  t party, or it mig anot ime. It  and trees, and I  too so move. Almost. But one of us did and t any interval bet um leap, suddenly,  was paradise.

    quot;e sas moved aime, so s... But t . I o C;

    It rangest tly s rooms lit stood ing, quiet, expectant.

    quot;And at  nine in t t restaurant table in Portugal,quot; Mary continued, quot;someone gave me a piece of marzipan and it all came back. And I t: am I really going to spend t of my life  ever feeling t again? I t: I  to go to Cs full of treasures and strangeness and mystery and joy. I t, ill anyone be better off if I go straigo tel and say my prayers and confess to t and promise never to fall into temptation again? ill anyone be tter for making me miserable?

    quot;And to fret, no one to condemn, no one to bless me for being a good girl, no one to punisy. I didnt kno free and lonely and I didnt knorange   as I . A taste, a memory, a landslide...

    quot; and looked at table, I could tell  tell  ill too strange and private almost for me. But later on  for a  breeze kept stirring my , and tlantic le quiet ...

    quot;And I took t in t . All over. Gone.

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