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Edmund crept up to the arch and looked inside into the courtyard，and there he saw a sight that nearly made his heart stop beating．Just inside the gate，with the moonlight shining on it， stood an enormous lion crouched as if it was ready to spring．And Edmund stood in the shadow of the arch，afraid to go on and afraid to go back，with his knees knocking together．He stood there so long that his teeth would have been chattering with cold even if they had not been chattering with fear．How long this really lasted I don’t know，but it seemed to Edmund to last for hours．
Then at last he began to wonder why the lion was standing so still-for it hadn’t moved one inch since he first set eyes on it． Edmund now ventured a little nearer，still keeping in the shadow of the arch as much as he could．He now saw from the way the lion was standing that it couldn’t have been looking at him at all. （“But supposing it turns its head ？”thought Edmund．）In fact it was staring at somethi
