chater ix the begng f uncle andrew’ truble (第4/16页)
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of the least use.In a moment they found themselves in Uncle Andrew’s study;and there was Uncle Andrew himself,staring at the wonderful creature that Digory had brought back from beyond the world.
And well he might stare.Digory and Polly stared too.There was no doubt that the Witch had got over her faintness;and now that one saw her in our own world,with ordinary things around her,she fairly took one’s breath away.In Charn she had been alarming enough:in London,she was terrifying.For one thing, they had not realized till now how very big she was.“Hardly human”was what Digory thought when he looked at her;and he may have been right,for some say there is giantish blood in the royal family of Charn.But even her height was nothing compared with her beauty,her fierceness,and her wildness.She looked ten times more alive than most of the people one meets in London. Uncle Andrew was bowing and rubbing his hands and looking,to
tell the truth,extremely frightened.He seemed a little