chater three the ailg f the kg (第17/18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。
Are you sure you didn’t see anyone else first ?”
“I was only here about a minute before you,”said Scrubb. “He must have blown you quicker than me. Making up for lost time: the time you lost.”
“Don’t be a perfect beast,Scrubb,”said Jill. “Hallo ! What’s that ?”
It was the castle bell ringing for supper,and thus what looked like turning into a first-rate quarrel was happily cut short. Both had a good appetite by this time.
Supper in the great hall of the castle was the most splendid thing either of them had ever seen;for though Eustace had been in that world before,he had spent his whole visit at sea and knew nothing of the glory and courtesy of the Narnians at home in their own land. The banners hung from the roof,and each course came in with trumpeters and kettledrums. There were soups that would make your mouth water to think of,and the lovely fishes called pavenders,and venison and peacock and pies,and ices and jellies and fruit and nuts,and all manner of