Seems to me the place to fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed. - Philip Pullman

When he'd sworn at her and been sworn at in return, they became great friends.

"Lee saw the fireball and head through the roar in his ears Hester saying, "That's the last of 'em Lee."

He said, or thought, "Those poor men didn't have to come to this, nor did we."

She said, "We held 'em off. We held out. We're a-helping Lyra."

Then she was pressing her little proud broken self against his face, as close as she could get, and then they died."

swathed in an old tweed coat on which the damp had settled like a thousand tiny pearls.