chater five uddleg (第11/18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。
. I don’t suppose we shall ever see the King back in Narnia，now that he’s once set off for foreign parts；and he had a nasty cough when he left. Then there’s Trumpkin. He’s failing fast. And you’ll find there’ll have been a bad harvest after this terrible dry summer. And I shouldn’t wonder if some enemy attacked us. Mark my words.”
“And how shall we start ？”said Scrubb.
“Well,”said the Marsh-wiggle very slowly，“all the others who ever went looking for Prince Rilian started from that same fountain where Lord Drinian saw the lady. They went north， mostly. And as none of them ever came back，we can’t exactly say how they got on.”
“We’ve got to start by finding a ruined city of giants,”said Jill. “Aslan said so.”
“Got to start by finding it，have we ？”answered Puddleglum. “Not allowed to start by looking for it，I suppose ？”
“That’s what I meant，of course,”said Jill. “And then，when we’ve found it—”
“Yes，when ！ ”said Puddleglum very drily.
“Doesn
