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cupboard in that first room where she looked at me. The one next door. I could wear them."
"Good idea!" said the nurse. "Quick, then."
With a secret glee,soon all three of them were together in a maelstrom of running children.
"No one'll notice if we take a look around," said Lyra. "It'll take 'em ages to count everyone, and we can say we just followed someone else and got lost."
They waited till most of the grownups were looking the other way, and then Lyra Lyra hurried there behind the nurse and retrieved her proper furs and leggings and boots, and pulled them on quickly while the nurse dressed herself in coal silk.Then they hurried out. In the wide arena in front of the main group of buildings, a hundred or so people, adults and children, were milling about: some in excitement, some in irritation, many just bewildered."See?" one adult was saying. "It's worth doing this to find out what chaos we'd be in with a real fire."Someone was blowing a whistle and waving his arms, but no one was taking much notice. Lyra saw Roger and beckoned. Roger tugged Billy Costa's arm and
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