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The_Complete_Chronicles_of_Narnia_(volumes_1-7,_in_order_of_publication)

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"Don't you see, Sire?" said Cor<strong>in</strong>. "It's my double: the boy you mistook me for at<br />

Tashbaan."<br />

"Why, so he is your double," exclaimed Queen Lucy. "As like as two tw<strong>in</strong>s. This is a<br />

marvellous th<strong>in</strong>g."<br />

"Please, your Majesty," said Shasta to K<strong>in</strong>g Edmund, "I was no traitor, really I wasn't.<br />

And I couldn't help hear<strong>in</strong>g your plans. But I'd never have dreamed <strong>of</strong> tell<strong>in</strong>g them to<br />

your enemies."<br />

"I know now that you were no traitor, boy," said K<strong>in</strong>g Edmund, lay<strong>in</strong>g his hand on<br />

Shasta's head. "But if you would not be taken for one, another time try not to hear what's<br />

meant for other ears. But all's well."<br />

After that there was so much bustle and talk and com<strong>in</strong>g and go<strong>in</strong>g that Shasta for a few<br />

m<strong>in</strong>utes lost sight <strong>of</strong> Cor<strong>in</strong> and Edmund and Lucy. But Cor<strong>in</strong> was the sort <strong>of</strong> boy whom<br />

one is sure to hear <strong>of</strong> pretty soon and it wasn't very long before Shasta heard K<strong>in</strong>g<br />

Edmund say<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> a loud voice:<br />

"By the Lion's Mane, pr<strong>in</strong>ce, this is too much! Will your Highness never be better? You<br />

are more <strong>of</strong> a heart's-scald than our whole army together! I'd as lief have a regiment <strong>of</strong><br />

hornets <strong>in</strong> my command as you."<br />

Shasta wormed his way through the crowd and there saw Edmund, look<strong>in</strong>g very angry<br />

<strong>in</strong>deed, Cor<strong>in</strong> look<strong>in</strong>g a little ashamed <strong>of</strong> himself, and a strange Dwarf sitt<strong>in</strong>g on the<br />

ground mak<strong>in</strong>g faces. A couple <strong>of</strong> fauns had apparently just been help<strong>in</strong>g it out <strong>of</strong> its<br />

armour.<br />

"If I had but my cordial with me," Queen Lucy was say<strong>in</strong>g, "I could soon mend this. But<br />

the High K<strong>in</strong>g has so strictly charged me not to carry it commonly to the wars and to<br />

keep it only for great extremities!"<br />

What had happened was this. As soon as Cor<strong>in</strong> had spoken to Shasta, Cor<strong>in</strong>'s elbow had<br />

been plucked by a Dwarf <strong>in</strong> the army called Thornbut.<br />

"What is it, Thornbut?" Cor<strong>in</strong> had said.<br />

"Your Royal Highness," said Thornbut, draw<strong>in</strong>g him aside, "our march today will br<strong>in</strong>g<br />

us through the pass and right to your royal father's castle. We may be <strong>in</strong> battle before<br />

night."<br />

"I know," said Cor<strong>in</strong>. "Isn't it splendid!"

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