Lee Scoresby arranged some furs over Lyra. She curled up close ter and they lay together asleep as the balloo on toward the Pole. The aeronaut checked his instruments from time to time, chewed on the cigar he would never light with the inflammable hydrogen so close, and huddled deeper into his own furs.
“This little girls pretty important, huh?” he said after several minutes.
“More than she will know,” Serafina Pekkala said.
“Does that mean theres gonna be mu the way of armed pursuit? You uand, Im speaking as a practical man with a living to earn. I t afford to get busted up or shot to pieces without some kind of pensation agreed to in advance. I aint trying to lower the tone of this expedition, believe me, maam. But John Faa and the gyptians paid me a fee thats enough to cover my time and skill and the normal wear and tear on the balloon, and thats all. It didnt include acts-of-war insurance. A me tell you, maam, when we land lorek Byrnison on Sva……（内容加载失败！）
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