chater fur the dwarf tell f rce caian (第7/18頁)
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did my great-great-grandcesters conquer?”
“Whom,not who,your Highness,”said Doctor Cornelius.“Perhaps it is time to turn from History to Grammar.”
“Oh please,not yet!”said Caspian.
“I mean,wasn’t there a battle? Why is he called Caspian the Conqueror if there was nobody to fight with him?”
“I said there were very few men in Narnia,”said the Doctor,looking at the little boy very strangely through his great spectacles.
For a moment Caspian was puzzled and then suddenly his heart gave a leap.“Do you mean,”he gasped,“that there were other things? Do you mean it was like in the stories? Were there-?”
“Hush!”said Doctor Cornelius,laying his head very close to Caspian’s.“Not a word more.Don’t you know your Nurse was sent away for telling you about Old Narnia? The King doesn’t like it.If he found me telling you secrets,you’d be whipped and I should have my head cut off.”
“But why?”asked Caspian.
“1t is high time we turned to Grammar now,