Caravaggio Lute Player

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torn. Why you can't keep yourself clean and tidy..."
Lyra was too sulky even to ask why she was having to wash and dress, and no grownup ever gave reasons of their own accord. She dragged the dress over her head and dropped it on the narrow bed, and began to wash desultorily ," Lyra muttered.
Mrs. Lonsdale smacked her leg. "Wash," she said ferociously. "You get all that dirt off."
"Why?" Lyra said at last. "I never wash my knees usually. No one's while Pantalaimon, a canary now, hopped closer and closer to Mrs. Lonsdale's daemon, a stolid retriever, trying in vain to annoy him."Look at the state of this wardrobe! You en't hung nothing up for weeks! Look at the creases in this-"Look at this, look at that...Lyra didn't want to look. She shut her eyes as she rubbed at her face with the thin towel."You'll just have to wear it as it is. There en't time to take an iron to it. God bless me, girl, your knees-look at the state of them....""Don't want to look at nothing