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that the tin itself moved slowly over the wood.
"I've heard of them clockwork devils, but never seen one," John Faa said. "There en't no way of taming it and turning it . Not a grand cabin, to be sure; in fact, little more than a closet with a bunk and a scuttle, which was the proper name for porthole. She stowed her few things in the drawer below the bunk and ran up excitedly to lean over the rail and watch England vanish behind, only to find that most of England had vanished in the mist before she got there.
But the rush of water below, the movement in the air, the ship's lights back, I do know that much. Nor is it any use weighing it down with lead and dropping it in the ocean, because one day it'd rust through and out the devil would come and make for the child wherever she was. No, we'll have to keep it by, and exercise our vigilance."Lyra being the only female on board (for John Faa had decided against taking women, after much thought), she had a cabin to herself
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