Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paolo and Francesca

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Paolo and FrancescaDante Gabriel Rossetti A Sea SpellJohannes Vermeer Lady Seated at a Virginal
how do you know that, for God's sake? The alethiometer again?"
"Yes. Lyra has a part to play in all this, and a major one. The irony is that she must do it all without realizing what she's doing. She can be helped, though, and if my plan with the Tokay had succeeded, she would have been safe for a said. "Why should a distant theological riddle interest a healthy, thoughtless child?"
"Because of what she must experience. Part of that includes a great betrayal...."
"Who's going to betray her?"
"No, no, that's the saddest thing: she will be the betrayer, and the experience will be little longer. I would have liked to spare her a journey to the North. I wish above all things that I were able to explain it to her...""She wouldn't listen," the Librarian said. "I know her ways only too well. Try to tell her anything serious and she'll half-listen for five minutes and then start fidgeting. Quiz her about it next time and she'll have completely forgotten.""If I talked to her about Dust? You don't think she'd listen to that?"The Librarian made a noise to indicate how unlikely he thought that was."Why on earth should she?" he