chater ix a gd night’ wrk (第5/15页)
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ished to find how silently and almost invisibly she glided on before them.
“By the Mane!”he whispered to Eustace.“This girl is a wondrous wood-maid. If she had Dryad’s blood in her she could scarce do it better.”
“She’s so small,that’s what helps,”whispered Eustace. But Jill from in front said:“S-s-s-h,less noise.”
All round them the wood was very quiet. Indeed it was far too quiet. On an ordinary Narnia night there ought to have been noises-an occasional cheery“Goodnight”from a Hedgehog,the cry of an Owl overhead,perhaps a flute in the distance to tell of Fauns dancing,or some throbbing,hammering noises from Dwarfs underground. All that was silenced:gloom and fear reigned over Narnia.
After a time they began to go steeply uphill and the trees grew further apart. Tirian could dimly make out the wellknown hill-top and the stable. Jill was now going with more and more caution: she kept on making signs to the others with her hand to do the same. Then she stoppe