Guido Reni The Coronation of the Virgin

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smoke-filled cafe facing the water, eating spice cakes and drinking strong sweet Coffee at the long wooden tables under the fizz and crackle of some ancient anbaric lights.
"Where's Lord with surprise. He was a tall, lean man with a thin black moustache and narrow blue eyes, and a perpetual expression of distant and sardonic amusement. She felt strongly about him at once, but she wasn't sure whether it was liking she felt, or dislike. His daemon was a shabby hare as thin and tough-looking as he was.
He held out his hand and she shook it warily.
"Lee Scoresby," he said.Faa?" she said, sitting down with Tony Costa and his friends. "And Farder Coram? Are they getting the bear's armor for him?""They're a talking to the sysselman. That's their word for governor. You seen this bear, then, Lyra?""Yeah!" she said, and explained all about him. As she talked, someone else pulled a chair up and joined the group at the table."So you've spoken to old lorek?" he said.She looked at the newcomer