ted ts royally. It o see tes and diso table and not to see anyone carrying t o do in invisible t. t t point of eac fifteen feet up in t op quite suddenly about t from tained anyte rous.
quot;Im beginning to feel very inquisitive about t; o Edmund. quot;Do you t all? More like frogs, I should say.”
quot;It does look like it,quot; said Edmund. quot;But dont put to Lucys too keen on insects; especially big ones.”
ter if it been so exceedingly messy, and also if tion consisted entirely of agreements. t everyt of t it be easy to disagree ; I al; or quot;Getting dark no nig; or even quot;Aer.
Po stuff, aint it?quot; And Lucy could not trance to t of taircase - s from airs next morning. But it was a good meal
ot boiled s, curds, cream, milk, and mead. t Eustace er he had drunk any.
morning it ion or a day ist. It of side looking very like somewhere in England.
S up and dressed and tried to talk and eat ordinarily at breakfast. ter being instructed by t airs, so to ttom of tairs, and began going up t once looking back.
It e lig raig top of t flig fligick-tock-tick-tock of a grandfato to turn to up t fliger t s he clock any more.
Noop of tairs. Lucy looked and sa tly t ed and very many doors opened off it on eacood still and couldnt ain, or anyt ting of .
quot;t door,quot; so did seem a bit it s. to reac so room after room. And in any room t be t it do to t t. S out on
made no noise.
quot;tever to be afraid of yet,quot; Lucy told ainly it , sunlit passage; per too quiet. It range signs painted in scarlet on ty, complicated t mig be a very nice meaning eit t t tly ugly - or not so very ugly - but ty eye- yourself you art imagining t turned to them.
After about t real frig almost certain t a tle bearded face of t o stop and look at it. And it a face at all. It tle mirror just top of it and a beard , so t o t looked as if to you. quot;I just caugion ail of my eye as I past,quot; said Lucy to ;t s quite
; But s like t on. (I dont kno a magician.)
Before s door on t, Lucy o s to it at last. And the door was open.
It o ceiling iny little books, fat and dumpy books, and books bigger t sructions t s bot any of to read it standing (and any so stand o t. So at once surned to s the door.
It s.
Some people may disagree t I te rig t t it to o stand in a place like t be just t to be done.
One t o give s in t ed o begin at till so it; obviously t t;But it migake me days and ; said Lucy, looking at t;and I feel already as if Id been in this place for hours.”
S up to tingled ricity. Sried to open it but couldnt at first; t ened by t was!
It ten, not printed; ten in a clear, even rokes and trokes, very large, easier t, and so beautiful t Lucy stared at it for a about reading it. t; and in tal letters at tures.
title page or title; traig first tant in ts (by ootaking a sure of toot it would your
oeet it too long, and tted all round t as if they were really flying.
Lucy could ear first page, but as interesting. quot;But I must get on,quot; sold for about ty pages reasure, o remember tten, o forget ted to forget, o tell o call up (or prevent) or rain, o produce enced sleeps and o give a man an asss o poor Bottom). And tures became.
to a page one iced ting. sice t o make beautiful utteret beyond t of mortals. Lucy peered at tures o te clearly. t ure of a girl standing at a reading-desk reading in a ly like Lucy. In t picture Lucy (for ture errible expression on ing or reciting someture ty beyond t of mortals o range, considering ures first, t ture noe as big as to eacer a fees because sy of till see a sort of likeness to beautiful face. And noures came cro tournament in Calormen and all t because of y. After t it turned from tournaments to real erebinte lords iful beyond t of mortals, ure looked exactly like ty expression. And Susan y of Lucy, but t didnt matter a bit because no one cared anyt Susan now.
quot;I ; said Lucy. quot;I dont care. I will.”
S care because srong feeling t snt.
But ing, e sure ture before, s face of a lion, of taring into ed suc gold t it seemed to be coming toe sure after it really moved a little. At any rate she
expression on e h.
Surned over t once.
A little later so a spell about you. Noo try t made you beautiful beyond t of mortals. So s t to make up for not , so tell you ed for someto happen.
As not tures. And all at once s ted - a picture of a train, ing in it. S once. ton and Anne Featone.
Only no outside t;coming onquot;)
s they were saying.
quot;Serm?quot; said Anne, quot;or are you still going to be all taken up h Lucy Pevensie. “
quot;Dont knoaken up,quot; said Marjorie.
quot;O; said Anne. quot;You term.”
quot;No, I ,quot; said Marjorie. quot;Ive got more sense t. Not a bad little kid in I ting pretty tired of erm.”
quot;ell, you jolly erm!quot; sed Lucy. quot;ttle beast.quot; But t once reminded salking to a picture and t ther world.
quot;ell,quot; said Lucy to ;I did tter of . And I did all sorts of t term, and I stuck to many ot too. And to Anne Featone of all people! I s of otures. No. I look at any more. I , I and effort surned over t not before a large, angry tear .
On t page so a spell quot;for t of t. tures iful. And on for to ttom of tten t s all. Sory as if it ures oo. to to t;t is t story Ive ever read or ever s for ten years. At least Ill read it over again.”
But of to play. You couldnt turn back. t-urned; t-.
quot;O a s; said Lucy. quot;I did so to read it again. ell, at least I must remember it. Lets see . . . it . . . about . . . os all fading away again.
And even t page is going blank. tten? It a cup and a sree and a green much.
But I cant remember and w shall I do?”
And s day ory is a story ory in the Magicians Book.
Surned on and found to ures at all; but t o make to make sure of all t out loud. And s once t it al letters at top of tures began appearing in t ten in Invisible Ink and ting gradually sead of t Invisible Ink) t. tures and contained many figures t Lucy did not muc, quot;I suppose Ive made everyt only t be lots of ot a place like t sure t I to see them all.”
At t moment s, falls coming along t sold about t and making no more noise t. It is alter to turn round to hing creeping up behind your back. Lucy did so.
t up till, for a moment (but of course s kno), s as beautiful as t oture, and stle cry of deligretc. For ood in t of all came from inside o t he was purring.
quot;O; said s;it o come.”
quot;I ime,quot; said ;but you made me visible.”
quot;Aslan!quot; said Lucy almost a little reproac;Dont make fun of me. As if anything 1 could do would make you visible!”
quot;It did,quot; said Aslan. quot;Do you t obey my own rules?”
After a little pause he spoke again.
quot;C; ;I think you have been eavesdropping.”
quot;Eavesdropping?”
quot;You listened to wo sc you.”
quot;O? I never t t it magic?”
quot;Spying on people by magic is t s s mean.”
quot;I dont to forget w I heard her say.”
quot;No, you .”
quot;O; said Lucy. quot; been for t friends - all our lives perhaps- and now we never shall.”
quot;C; said Aslan, quot;did I not explain to you once before t no one is ever told w would have happened?”
quot;Yes, Aslan, you did,quot; said Lucy. quot;Im sorry. But please -”
quot;Speak on, dear .”
quot;So, read t story again; t remember? ill you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do, do, do.”
quot;Indeed, yes, I ell it to you for years and years. But no meet ter of this house.”