Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Vincent van Gogh The Plain at Auvers

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Farder Coram and Lyra exchanged a look of alarm and wonderment, but only for a second, and then Farder Coram was hobbling out on his sticks as fast as he could manage, with his daemon padding ahead of him. Lyra came too, hopping with impatience.
The young Hawker's boat just a few minutes ago."
"Where's Peter now?"
"He's a tying up. It was him said I had to send for you."
"Quite right. Now, Jacob, can ye hear me?"
Jacob's eyes rolled to look at Farder Coram sitting on the opposite bunk, a foot or two away.
"Hello, Farder Coram," he murmured.man led them to a boat tied up at the sugar-beet jetty, where a woman in a red flannel apron held open the door for them. Seeing her suspicious glance at Lyra, Farder Coram said, "It's important the girl hears what Jacob's got to say, mistress."So the woman let them in and stood back, with her squirrel daemon perched silent on the wooden clock. On a bunk under a patchwork coverlet lay a man whose white face was damp with sweat and whose eyes were glazed."I've sent for the physician, Farder Coram," said the woman shakily. "Please don't agitate him. He's in an agony of pain. He come in off Peter

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