Guards Guards - Book thief

The ape eventually padded to a halt in front of a shelf no different than, it seemed, a hundred others. Some of the books were chained up. There was a gap. The Librarian pointed to it.

“Oook.”

“Well, what about it? A hole where a book should be.”

“Oook.”

“A book has been taken. A book has been taken? You summoned the Watch,” Carrot drew himself up proudly, “because someone's taken a book? You think that's worse than murder?”

The Librarian gave him the kind of look other people would reserve for people who said things like “What's so bad about genocide?”

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Guards Guards - 117-118