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amusement passed between them.
"What's that?" said Dame Hannah.
"You have to promise to believe me," Lyra said seriously. "I know I haven't always told the truth, and I could only survive in some places by telling lies and making up stories. So I know that's what I've been like, and I know you know it, but mysaid, "almost, almost more than anything else? I wish I hadn't lost the way of reading the alethiometer. Oh, it was so strange, Master, how it came in the first place and then just left! One day I knew it so well, I could move up and down the symbol meanings and step from one to another and make all the connections, it was like..." She smiled, and went on, "Well, I was like a monkey in the trees, it was so quick. Then suddenly, nothing. None of it made sense; I couldn't even remember anything except just basic meanings, like the anchor means hope and the skull means death. All those thousands true story's too important for me to tell if you're only going to believe half of it. So I promise to tell the truth, if you promise to believe it.""Well, I promise," said Dame Hannah.The Master said, "And so do I.""But you know the thing I wish," Lyra
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