Monster Cable- (11)

sunnysfmwp · Wysłany: Czw 16:19, 24 Mar 2011 Temat postu: Monster Cable- (11)

"Course not. They wouldn't tell servants about a thing like that. And I have been in the Retiring Room, so there. Anyway,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], my uncle's always doing that. He done it to some Tartars when they caught him once. They tied him up and they was going to cut his guts out, but when the first man come up with the knife, my uncle just looked at him, and he fell dead,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so another one come up and he done the same to him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and finally there was only one left. My uncle said he'd leave him alive if he untied him, so he did, and then my uncle killed him anyway just to teach him a lesson."
Roger was less sure about that than about Gobblers, but the story was too good to waste,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], so they took it in turns to be Lord Asriel and the expiring Tartars, using sherbet dip for the foam.
However, that was a distraction; Lyra was still intent on playing Gobblers, and she inveigled Roger down into the wine cellars, which they entered by means of the Butler's spare set of keys. Together they crept through the great vaults where the College's Tokay and Canary, its Burgundy, its brantwijn were lying under the cobwebs of ages. Ancient stone arches rose above them supported by pillars as thick as ten trees, irregular flagstones lay underfoot, and on all sides were ranged rack upon rack, tier upon tier, of bottles and barrels. It was fascinating. With Gobblers forgotten again, the two children tiptoed from end to end holding a candle in trembling fingers, peering into every dark corner, with a single question growing more urgent in Lyra's mind every moment: what did the wine taste like?