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y gazing.Behind them was the sea and the sun,before them the Darkness.
“Do we go into this ?”asked Caspian at length.
“Not by my advice,”said Drinian.
“The Captain’s right,”said several sailors.
“I almost think he is,”said Edmund.
Lucy and Eustace didn’t speak but they felt very glad inside at the turn things seemed to be taking.But all at once the clear voice of Reepicheep broke in upon the silence.
“And why not?”he said.“Will someone explain to me why not.”
No one was anxious to explain,so Reepicheep continued:
“If I were addressing peasants or slaves,”he said,“I might suppose that this suggestion proceeded from cowardice.But I hope it will never be told in Narnia that a company of noble and royal persons in the flower of their age turned tail because they were afraid of the dark.”
“But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that blackness ?”asked Drinian.
“Use ?”replied Reepicheep.“Use,Captain ? If by us