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appointed me executor; so you needn't worry about that."
In fact, Lord Asriel had done nothing of the sort, but Jordan college was rich, and the Master had money of his own, even after the recent upheavals.
"No," he went on, "I was thinking about learning. You're still very young, and your education until now has depended on...well, ."
"Let me make a suggestion," said the lady, "and you needn't respond now. Think about it for a while. Now, my not as old as Jordan, and you're too young yet to become an undergraduate in any case, but a few years ago we acquired a large house in north Oxford, and we decided to set up a boarding school. I'd like you to come and meet the quite frankly, on which of our scholars you intimidated least," he said, but he was smiling. "It's been haphazard. Now, it may turn out that in due course your talents will take you in a direction we can't foresee at all. But if you were to make the alethiometer the subject of your life's work, and set out to learn consciously what you could once do by intuition...”"Yes," said Lyra definitely."…then you could hardly do better than put yourself in the hands of my good friend Dame Hannah. Her scholarship in that field is unmatched
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