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"And as for me," Lyra went on, "I assure you I don't care for the little bit of harm it does me." "But you ought you ought!" cried Annie. "You ought to respect yourself enough to care. You ought to respect other women enough." "Oh, I guess I'd let the balance of the sex slide, Annie," said Lyra. "No, you mustn't; you can't. We are all bound together; we owe everything to each other."
LYRA: You enjoy the studies with your Spiral, come! ASTRAEA: Professor Spiral is the one honest gentleman here. He does homage to my principles. I have never been troubled by him: no silly hints or side-looks you know, the dog at the forbidden bone. LYRA: A grand orator. ASTRAEA: He is. You fix on the smallest of his gifts. He is intellectually and morally superior.
ASTRAEA: The fencing lessons are at an end. LYRA: The duetts with Mr. Swithin's violoncello continue? ASTRAEA: He broke through the melody. LYRA: There were readings in poetry with Mr. Osier, I recollect. ASTRAEA: His own compositions became obtrusive. LYRA: No fencing, no music, no poetry! no West Coast of Africa either, I suppose. ASTRAEA: Very well! I am on my defence.
On this night, although I thought I had put my clothes out of reach, both the termites and the carregadores ants got at them, ate holes in one boot, ate one leg of my drawers, and riddled my handkerchief; and I now had nothing to replace anything that was destroyed. Next day Lyra, Kermit, and their camaradas brought the five canoes that were left down to camp.
The mouth of this river had long been known, but its upper course for half its length was absolutely unknown when Rondon descended it. Among those who took part under him in this piece of exploration were the present Captain Amilcar and Lieutenant Lyra; and two better or more efficient men for such wilderness work it would be impossible to find. They acted as his two chief assistants on our trip.
A far different fate, I am sorry to record, befell another monkey of mine, in another ship, and in a very different quarter of the globe. I was then in command of the Lyra, on the homeward voyage from China, after the embassy under Lord Amherst had been concluded. We touched on our way to Calcutta at the Philippine Islands, and, amongst other live stock, laid in a monkey which had seen the world.
Our dripping Neptune in the Lyra was accompanied, as usual, by a huge she-monster representing Amphitrite, being no other than one of the boatswain's mates dressed up with the main-hatchway tarpaulin for a cloak, the jolly-boat's mizen for a petticoat, while two half-wet swabs furnished her lubberly head with ringlets.
I don't know about not letting the hands stay to the dance and supper, Mrs. Munger. You know I might feel 'put upon. I used to be one of the hands myself. Yes, Annie, there was a time after you went away, and after father died, when I actually fell so low as to work for an honest living." "I think I heard, Lyra," said Annie; "but I had forgotten."
"I've been discreetly hemming and scraping and hammering on the wood-work so as not to overhear, and I'd have gone away if I hadn't been afraid of being overheard." "Oh, come in, Lyra," said Annie; and she hoped that she had kept the spirit of resignation with which she spoke out of her voice. Dr. Morrell jumped up with an apparent desire to escape that wounded and exasperated her.
"Besides, I don't know that it was so very wicked. What makes you think it was?" "Oh, it wasn't that merely. Lyra, may I may I speak to you plainly, frankly like a sister?" Annie's heart filled with tenderness for Lyra, with the wish to help her, to save a person who charmed her so much. "Well, like a step-sister, you may," said Lyra demurely. "It wasn't for her sake alone that I hated to see it.
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