Thomas Gainsborough The Blue Boy

Thomas Gainsborough The Blue BoyHenri Matisse The DanceGustav Klimt Mother and Child detail from The Three Ages of Woman
My left leg is broken," said the Gallivespian calmly. "The last man stepped on me. Listen carefully...”
As the monkey lifted him away from the lights, Lord Roke explained exactly where the resonating chamber was and how to open it. , and tumbled down the slope toward the monkey.
And then everything was happening at once, too quickly: there was a burst of gunfire, and a cloud of acrid smoke billowed across the slope, though she saw no flames. The golden monkey, seeing Mrs. Coulter attacked, set Lord Roke down and sprang to her defense, just as the They were practically under the eyes of the soldiers, but step by step, from shadow to shadow, the daemon crept with his little burden.Mrs. Coulter, watching and biting her lip, heard a rush of air and felt a heavy knock, not to her body, but to the tree. An arrow stuck there quivering less than a hand's breadth from her left arm. At once she rolled away, before the witch could shoot another