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"That's right, that's right," said the Chief Voice. "You don't see us. And why not? Because we're invisible." "Keep it up, Chief, keep it up," said the Other Voices. "You're talking like a book. They couldn't ask for a better answer than that." "Be quiet, Reep," said Caspian, and then added in a louder voice, "You invisible people, what do you want with us? And what have we done to earn your enmity?" "We want something that little girl can do for us," said the Chief Voice. (The others explained that this was just what they would have said themselves.) "Little girl!" said Reepicheep. "The lady is a queen." "We don't know about queens," said the Chief Voice. ("No more we do, no more we do," chimed in the others.) "But we want something she can do." "What is it?" said Lucy. "And if it is anything against her Majesty's honour or safety," added Reepicheep, "you will wonder to see how many we can kill before we die." "Well," said the Chief Voice. "It's a long story. Suppose we all sit down?" , The proposal was warmly approved by the other voices but the Narnians remained standing. "Well," said the Chief Voice. "It's like this. This island has been the property of a great magician time out of mind. And we all are - or perhaps in a manner of speaking, I might say, we were - his servants. Well, to cut a long story short, this magician that I was speaking about, he told us to do something we didn't like. And why not? Because we didn't want to. Well, then, this same magician he fell into a great rage; for I ought to tell you he owned the island and he wasn't used to being crossed. He was terribly downright, you know. But let me see, where am I? Oh yes, this magician then, he goes upstairs (for you must know he kept all his magic things up there and we all lived down below), I say he goes upstairs and puts a spell on us. An uglifying spell. If you saw us now, which in my opinion you may thank your stars you can't, you wouldn't believe what we looked like before we were uglified. You wouldn't really. So there we all were so ugly we couldn't bear to look at one another. So then what did we do? Well, I'll tell you what we did. We waited till we thought this same magician would be asleep in the afternoon and we creep upstairs and go to his magic book, as bold as brass, to see if we can do anything about this uglification. But we were all of a sweat and a tremble, so I won't deceive you. But, believe me or believe me not, I do assure you that we couldn't find any thing in the way of a spell for taking off the ugliness. And what with time getting on and being afraid that
the old gentleman might wake up any minute - I was all of a muck sweat, so I won't deceive you - well, to cut a long story short, whether we did right or whether we did wrong, in the end we see a spell for making people invisible. And we thought we'd rather be invisible than go on being as ugly as all that. And why? Because we'd like it better. So my little girl, who's just about your little girl's age, and a sweet child she was before she was uglified, though now - but least said soonest mended - I say, my little girl she says the spell, for it's got to be a little girl or else the magician himself, if you see my meaning, for otherwise it won't work. And why not? Because nothing happens. So my Clipsie says the spell, for I ought to have told you she reads beautifully, and there we all were as invisible as you could wish to see. And I do assure you it was a relief not to see one another's faces. At first, anyway. But the long and the short of it is we're mortal tired of being invisible. And there's another thing. We never reckoned on this magician (the one I was telling you about before) going invisible too. But we haven't ever seen him since. So we don't know if he's dead, or gone .away, or whether he's just sitting upstairs being invisible, and perhaps coming down and being invisible there. And, believe me, it's no manner of use listening because he always did go about with his bare feet on, making no more noise than a great big cat. And I'll tell all you gentlemen straight, it's getting more than what our nerves can stand." Such was the Chief Voice's story, but very much shortened, because I have left out what the Other Voices said. Actually he never got out more than six or seven words without being interrupted by their agreements and encouragements, which drove the Narnians nearly out of their minds with impatience. When it was over there was a very long silence. "But," said Lucy at last, "what's all this got to do with us? I don't understand." "Why, bless me, if I haven't gone and left out the whole point," said the Chief Voice. "That you have, that you have," roared the Other Voices with great enthusiasm. "No one couldn't have left it out cleaner and better. Keep it up, Chief, keep it up." "Well, I needn't go over the whole story again," began the Chief Voice. "No. Certainly not," said Caspian and Edmund. "Well, then, to put it in a nutshell," said the Chief Voice, "we've been waiting for ever so long for a nice little girl from foreign parts, like it might be you, Missie - that would go upstairs and go to the magic book and find the spell that takes off the invisibleness, and say it. And we all swore that the first strangers as landed on this island (having a nice little girl with them, I mean, for if they hadn't it'd be another matter) we wouldn't let them go away alive unless they'd done the needful for us. And that's why, gentlemen, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in the way of business, as you might say, and no offence, I hope."
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"What's that noise?" said Lucy sudd
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the umbrella: in the other arm he c
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And really it was a wonderful tea.
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"Oh, but you won't, Mr Tumnus," sai
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The others did not know what to thi
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Still there was no answer. "Just li
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The Queen took from somewhere among
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"I'll do my best," said Edmund. "An
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"What's all this about, Ed?" said P
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"But then," said Susan, and stopped
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Wardrobe Room till they've passed.
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"I think Lu ought to be the leader,
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"Well, we might as well try it," an
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"I know," said Peter. "The question
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instead of being smooth this was al
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"AND now," said Lucy, "do please te
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"Where's that?" said Lucy. "I'll sh
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"The reason there's no use looking,
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of Aslan gave him a mysterious and
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covered with snow. Of course it mus
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THE SPELL BEGINS TO BREAK Now we mu
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"If you hadn't all been in such a p
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was of gold and it had a sheath and
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journey for Edmund, who had no coat
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every direction. Unless you have lo
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They had left the course of the big
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When the girls had gone Aslan laid
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"Four thrones in Cair Paravel," sai
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When the other children woke up nex
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Edmund was on the other side of Asl
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"No," said Lucy. "I thought you wer
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"The fool!" she cried. "The fool ha
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As soon as the wood was silent agai
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"Oh, it's too bad," sobbed Lucy; "t
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greater leap than any he had yet ma
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liberated statues surged back into
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was Peter she was fightin - both of
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Aslan solemnly crowned them and led
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"And in mine too," said Queen Susan
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PRINCE CASPIAN BY C.S. LEWIS CHAPTE
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"Not me," said Lucy. "Mine were in
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"Look here. There's only one thing
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"How it all comes back!" said Lucy.
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"Fourth point. Don't you remember -
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"Then it really must be Cair Parave
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THE worst of sleeping out of doors
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Like most Dwarfs he was very stocky
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"Well," said the Dwarf, "as you've
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"Who's he?" said Miraz. And if Casp
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After that it was all nouns and ver
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"Well, you're a Man anyway," said C
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thinking and dreaming about the old
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"I don't see what that's got to do
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When he came to himself he was lyin
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"Don't you go talking about things
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feast and council on Dancing Lawn a
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As it was now past the middle of th
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Hill, carrying on his back a basket
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"Battle if need be," said Trumpkin.
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Stone Table had stood on the hillto
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"AND so," said Trumpkin (for, as yo
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The Dwarf's eyes glistened as he sa
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"No, there wasn't," said Trumpkin.
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And soon the green, wooded coast of
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Narnia came over her. She knew exac
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"That's the trouble of it," said Tr
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year till you get the little precip
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"Down," said Peter after a long pau
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Then - all at once - whizz, and a s
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it, but she could not catch the tun
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"Do you mean that is what you want
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CHAPTER ELEVEN THE LION ROARS WHEN
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"Get on, King Edmund, get on," came
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in bed, though he did not feel so.
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"The boy with the wild face is Bacc
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are whom he has brought into our co
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"Yes, they say," answered Nikabrik,
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it. When the flame rose clear, seve
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"Very well, I will dictate," said P
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"Why, if not, we should be as able
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"I knew he'd do it if he were prope
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faced him on the left. Peter had ju
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"Oh, I do hope he won't listen to t
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leading, Bacchus and his Maenads le
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At Beaversdam they re-crossed the r
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"I am confounded," said Reepicheep
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away, but as the talk grew quieter
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"And now," said Aslan, "you men and
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other two) was the grey, gravelly s
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The story begins on an afternoon wh
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"Stop it," came Eustace's voice, sq
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done, to take Reepicheep up in her
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Page 202 and 203: At the castle gate Caspian's trumpe
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Page 206 and 207: "Does your good Majesty mean to beg
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Page 220 and 221: "LOOK at what?" said Edmund. "Look
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Page 230 and 231: "They're right, Drinian," said Casp
Page 232 and 233: "Well!" whistled Caspian. "That was
Page 234 and 235: "Sire," said Reepicheep, "this is a
Page 236 and 237: "Right again, Chief," said the othe
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Page 260 and 261: never had been. They blinked their
Page 262 and 263: "The way to find out is to go right
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THE SILVER CHAIR By C.S. Lewis CHAP
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"What sort of things?" asked Jill.
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"I don't know," said Jill. "It's an
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Right ahead there were no trees: on
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with her mouth wide open. And she h
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This puzzled Jill very much. "It's
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When she looked back now she could
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Immediately in front of the King -
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"We were sent here by Aslan," said
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"Son of Adam and Daughter of Eve, h
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"So you see," she wound up, "you di
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"You'd better lead the way," said J
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"Yes," said Glimfeather, "I think,
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thing that was ever made." "Fair Pr
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She did, however, consent to climb
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"Yes we did, though," said Jill. "W
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"Where's Ettinsmoor?" said Scrubb.
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two; not that I suppose any of us w
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had given the blow would drop his h
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The other was a lady on a white hor
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"Oh, bother his ideas!" said Scrubb
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esistance. In most places the snow
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quite so well as she felt she ought
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"Then come in and get warm. Come in
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ut his tongue was so very large and
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then came the deadest hour of the n
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City, we'd have been shown how - fo
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CHAPTER NINE HOW THEY DISCOVERED SO
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Then she sat down on one chair and
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"They've seen us. Run," said Puddle
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Long, long afterwards, without the
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of the cave, which must have been a
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and nearer; but there was not a son
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some stones, and the carrying away
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mother has taken pains more tenderl
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lackness . . . how many years is it
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"You first!" he cried and fell upon
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Now the Witch said nothing at all,
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Puddleglum's words had a very rousi
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wiggle, which is not at all an ench
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the present. Their first business w
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(and now that they were close, they
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on the travellers, always trying to
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As soon as they heard it, everyone
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you come down to Bism? You'd be hap
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They urged the horses to a canter a
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"It's not right overhead," said Pud
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seen flying through the air.) They
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dance ten minutes before. Only ten
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eal meaty, spicy ones, fat and pipi
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think he's very strong? Constitutio
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and the castle and the snow and the
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He led them rapidly through the woo
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THE HORSE AND HIS BOY BY C.S. LEWIS
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were, a weak cry. And shortly after
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"Now look," it said, "we mustn't wa
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"What are they for, then?" asked Sh
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that smell in his life. And this ne
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Shasta soon learned, when he heard
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Shasta now gave himself up for lost
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"Why, in that case, what is to prev
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gods that as soon as I was dead I m
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"And what happened to the girl - th
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"My dear Hwin!" said Aravis rather
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At that moment a low, throbbing noi
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ehind him became so stiffened and p
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"Where hast been, Corin?" said the
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"It is this," said Edmund. "I do no
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trying to keep his head on by them
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It was a fine meal after the Calorm
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"There's no time," said Shasta in a
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Now that Shasta knew he would have
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Next morning when he woke, the cat
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There was not a moment to lose. Wit
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"But, darling, only think! Three pa
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doors of the throne room. It was al
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The false jade, the-" and here he a
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"O my father," said Rabadash. "How
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carry off the queen, yet the sight
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- do you know what I'll do? I'll ru
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"Now," said Bree. "All that about g
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steeply downwards and the rocks on
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The valley itself, with its brown,
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At that moment everyone's feelings
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Without waiting for an answer - and
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"I shall never see Narnia," said Br
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"Question him no more; Darrin," sai
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within an hour. And if it is, I giv
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"There was only one lion," said the
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"I see," said Shasta to himself. "T
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With a great deal' of bustle, mutte
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"Don't you see, Sire?" said Corin.
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"That's right," said Corin. "Over y
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But when at last the two lines met
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King Lune from their rear. The Calo
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HOW BREE BECAME A WISER HORSE WE mu
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"Please," she said, "you're so beau
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"Shasta - I mean Cor," said Aravis.
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There was a great and joyous meetin
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Lucy was sitting on the King's righ
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"Have a care, Rabadash," said Aslan
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"But Corin will be the King then, F
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THE MAGICIAN'S NEPHEW BY C. S. LEWI
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"You may think it interesting," sai
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"We mustn't make a sound," said Pol
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Digory and Polly glanced at one ano
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"In an asylum, do you mean?" "Oh no
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"It was a jolly cruel thing to do,"
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He got up, put on a pair of gloves,
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"Yes, I suppose I did," said Digory
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"Why, if awe can get back to our ow
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"Well don't keep on gassing about i
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almost hear the trees growing) and
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But Digory was more interested in t
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golden bell a light, smart tap. The
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the rings. I do hope Digory has the
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"Beast!" muttered Polly. "The last
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great Magician, if he has found how
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he may have been right, for some sa
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"Whew!" said Polly, letting out a l
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"Andrew," said Aunt Letty, looking
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And, if possible, she must not be a
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moment, and its neigh was like a sc
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"Dog!" came her cold, clear voice,
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So the horse never got his drink. I
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The Voice on the earth was now loud
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thought the green rings were "homew
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have done me good if - if circumsta
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into it with a plop-plop and a loud
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"Aslan! Aslan! Have I made the firs
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there with my feet like ice and my
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Finally, when a whole crowd of anim
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"Can it be made to stand up?" said
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"You met the Witch?" said Asian in
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"It'd be up to me to try, sir. I'd
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sound like making excuses. But he d
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He began flying to and fro, getting
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This was a difficult and delicate j
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children rolled off, fell without h
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old or die. Eat it, Boy, eat it; an
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CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE PLANTING OF TH
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"Do you think he wants to?" said As
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"I - I nearly ate one myself, Aslan
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He raced up the stirs before them a
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In Narnia the Beasts lived in great
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"That yellow thing that's just come
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"Now don't stand arguing, please,"
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"Well then, that's settled," said t
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Roonwit looked very grave, frowning
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They were now going Westward with t
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When Tirian knew that the Horse was
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He had Jewelled slippers on his hin
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"There! You see!" said the Ape. "It
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THE King was so dizzy from being kn
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"Goodnight, goodnight," said the Be
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a boy and girl who were younger sti
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Tirian wondered very much what he m
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"Gosh!" said Eustace. "It's getting
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CHAPTER SIX A GOOD NIGHT'S WORK ABO
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"Wait here till I come again," he w
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"That's him," said Jill. "But let's
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"By the great god Tash, they are ve
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"Do you think I keep him in my wall
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especially as it smelled nicer and
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would have done. It was roughly the
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wasn't easy to see what story he -
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The King and Eustace and the Dwarf
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When Tirian realized that the two s
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Why not hide in the woods, or even
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no one would dare to do even if He
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"Anyone can go in," he said. "But,
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Ginger disappeared further up into
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Next moment the astonished Narnians
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him, Puzzle, and use your hoofs. Ho
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"I would say as you do, Dwarf," sai
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What perhaps they had not taken int
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All at once everything came quite c
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"Sir," said Tirian, when he had gre
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that we'd been unstiffened. You you
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And -" "Friend," said Tirian softly
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"There is no black hole, save in yo
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egan to grow, spreading further and
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At last something white - a long, l
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just like the common ones, behave a
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him. But the Glorious One bent down
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hills," said Lucy, "the nice woody
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"Don't stop! Further up and further
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feather stuck in a circlet on its h
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ightly-coloured cloud, cut off from
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