THIRTY - THE CLOUDED MOUNTAIN

类别:文学名著 作者:菲利普·普尔曼 本章:THIRTY - THE CLOUDED MOUNTAIN

    tention craft ed by Mrs. Coulter. S.

    tric altimeter tle use in torm, but situde rougc blazed ling rain, till flaring   difficult, eitning t flickered around tain served as a brilliant beacon. But so avoid till fighe rising land below.

    S use ts, because sed to get close and find some s became more violent, ts more sudden and brutal. A gyropter o tention craft sly ing he Peaceable Ocean.

    Cautiously so climb, peering forruments and flying by siginct.  from one side of ttle glass cabin to to t and rigo antly. tning, great ss and lances of brilliance, flared and cracked above and around t all stle aircraft, gaining  little by little, and alohe cloud-hung palace.

    And as Mrs. Coulter approactention dazzled and beure of tain itself.

    It reminded ain abominable orial Court. ed t tial dimensions t on a very small scale, to seven or eig t to examine directly. ructed a model to s er  before it aining and being contained: its inside side ed  ing space itself to enfold and stretc into galleries and terraces, cc and vapor.

    S a strange exultation ime o bring t safely up to terrace on ttle craft lurcrained in turbid air, but so land on terrace.

    t sill noruck ts; but t . It came from tance of tain itself, wher-of-pearl radiance.

    oman and daemon got do and looked around to see whey should go.

    S otance of tain itself ion. S see tives of colonnade, staircase, terrace, and facade.

    Before so go, ster.

    As tention craft and stopped. tered, and some of t and fear.

    Mrs. Coulter ter: an angel, s, and indescribably aged.  easy to see, because tter al t glittered and t of tain, but serrifying decrepitude, of a face sunken in rembling h and rheumy eyes.

    tured s tention craft, and cackled and muttered to ly at tered a  Mrs. Coulter o cover her ears.

    But evidently task to do, for terrace, ignoring tter.  a o fly, carrying tter betil t to Mrs. Coulters sighe swirling vapors.

    But t time to t t. S staircases, crossing bridges, al, t t sense of invisible activity all around til finally turned a corner into a -ed by an angel h a spear.

    quot; is your business?quot; he said.

    Mrs. Coulter looked at ers of men, so long ago.

    quot;No, no,quot; sly, quot;please dont e time. take me to t at once. ing for me.quot;

    Disconcert t, keep t knoives of ligil to an  antecered, s kno ter a brief pause, somet of her opened like a door.

    o t. , but soo dazzled to see. to hide her eyes.

    Metatron said, quot;er?quot;

    quot;Ive come to tell you, my Lord Regent,quot; she said.

    quot;If s ;

    quot;S, but ;

    quot; be?quot;

    quot;I satron,  Regent, tle, my eyes are dazzled...quot;

    of   till pretended to be dazzled by ly like a man in early middle age, tall, poell because of t nothing else.

    quot;Please, Metatron,  come from Lord Asriel.  to searc;

    quot; does  ;

    quot;to keep il s knoo elling you trut me, great Regent, as I cant easily look at you. Look at me clearly, and tell me ;

    t   searcion Marisa Coulter er and deceit ripped aogety of Metatrons gaze.

    And s ure  h her whole life.

    quot;Yes, I see,quot; said Metatron.

    quot; do you see?quot;

    quot;Corruption and envy and lust for poy and coldness. A vicious, probing curiosity. Pure, poisonous, toxic malice. You  years s calculating  urn to your advantage. You ortured and killed  regret or ation; you rayed and intrigued and gloried in your treac of moral filt;

    t voice, delivering t judgment, ser profoundly. S  s, too, and no it  a little gusriumph.

    So him.

    quot;So you see,quot; s;I can betray o ing into your ;

    S t of vapor about  ed ice.

    quot;; ;I y, but none ;

    quot;;

    quot;y-five years, and ty took me to ;

    quot;And you ;

    quot;I loved tood it y. But   t;

    quot;And you  kno;

    quot;I  of t;

    quot;And is it not time you ?quot;

    t  s most exposed and in most danger. But srusted to o trange trut angels, pered it and longed for contact . And Metatron o gaze at texture of o touch scalding hands.

    trange sound, like t w youre hearing is your house on fire.

    quot;tell me w Lord Asriel is doing, and w; he said.

    quot;I can take you to ; she said.

    tter left tain and fleatrons orders o take ty to a place of safety atlefield, because ed  alive for a  rats,  ttention, rusted to ty of torm, calculating t in tances, a small party han a large one.

    And so it migain cliff-g, busy feasting on a  looked up just as a random searc caugal litter.

    Sometirred in ts memory. ion of a babbling Arctic fox came to his mind.

    At once  later t of troop followed.

    Xaply all t and some of te crack in tainside to tress,  and enlarged it, and noo a series of caverns and tunnels extending a long ress.

    It  totally dark, as . t source of illumination, like a stream of billions of tiny particles, faintly gloeadily dounnel like a river of light.

    quot;Dust,quot; o his daemon.

    t togetil quite suddenly tunnel opened out, and  top of a vast cavern: a vault

    immense enougo contain a dozen catiginously doo pit  beloself, and into t streamed t fall, pouring ceaselessly dos billions of particles ars of every galaxy in ttle fragment of conscious t. It o see by.

    o, to see  t resolved itself: a procession of dim, pale figures picking t. Intent on keeping toget tir at t ts.

    quot;Lyra came ; ly to the snow leopard.

    quot;tread carefully,quot; was all she said in reply.

    ill and Lyra umbling blindly to little gullies reams ran red  t uttered a es, and s and limp in Lyras hand.

    As tered in one riverbed  least, and scooped up o ty mout tialys rouse himself and say:

    quot;ill, I can  must be t across tream and  ;

    quot;Come on,quot; said ill to Lyra, and ter and scrambled up t in time. ttered doo drink didnt look like cavalry: to be of tridents, nets, and scimitars.

    ill and Lyra didnt stop to look; tumbled over t a croucent only on getting away unseen.

    But to keep to see ing an ankle, or  s until them.

    tures  lay glittering in tly taller ts side, a large cage, peral. t it s and rocks, shrieking and yelling.

    And before ill and Lyra could stop and run tumbled rigo troop.


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