Edward Hopper Summer InteriorEdward Hopper SailingEdward Hopper Ryder's House
brick terraced houses and into the great square-towered oratory of St. Barnabas the Chymist. Half of them didn't know what they were looking for, and thought it was just a lark, but those closest to Lyra felt a real fear and men were standing in angry groups, with all their daemons agitated and rising in nervous flight or snarling at shadows.
"I bet them Gobblers wouldn't dare come in here," said Lyra to Simon Parslow, as the two of them stepped over the threshold into the great lodge of Jordan.
"No," he said uncertainly. "But I know there's a kid missing from the market."
"Who?" Lyra said. She knew most of the market children, but she hadn't heard of thisapprehension every time they glimpsed a solitary figure down an alley or in the dimness of the oratory: was it a Gobbler?But of course it wasn't. Eventually, with no success, and with the shadow of Billy's real disappearance hanging over them all, the fun faded away. As Lyra and the two boys left Jericho when suppertime neared, they saw the gyptians gathering on the wharf next to where the Costas' boat was moored. Some of the women were crying loudly, and the
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