chater three the ailg f the kg (第1/18页)
C·S·路易斯提示您:看后求收藏(炎黄中文www.yhzw.org),接着再看更方便。
WHAT made Scrubb look so dingy(and Jill too,if she could only have seen herself)was the splendour of their surroundings. I had better describe them at once.
Through a cleft in those mountains which Jill had seen far inland as she approached the land,the sunset light was pouring over a level lawn. On the far side of the lawn,its weather-vanes glittering in the light,rose a many-towered and many-turreted castle;the most beautiful castle Jill had ever seen. On the near side was a quay of white marble and,moored to this,the ship:a tall ship with high forecastle and high poop,gilded and crimson,with a great flag at the mast-head,and many banners waving from the decks,and a row of shields,bright as silver,along the bulwarks. The gang-plank was laid to her,and at the foot of it,just ready to go on board,stood an old,old man. He wore a rich mantle of scarlet which opened in front to show his silver mail shirt. There was a thin circlet of gold on his head. His beard,white as wool,fel