Prince Caspian Quotes

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Things never happen the same way twice.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, #4) (Publication Order, #2))
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Aslan: You doubt your value. Don't run from who you are.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Aslan" said Lucy "you're bigger". "That is because you are older, little one" answered he. "Not because you are?" "I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men start going wild inside, like the animals here, and still look like men, so that you'd never know which were which.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' I - I don't think I do, Sir,' said Caspian. 'I am only a kid.' Good,' said Aslan. 'If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been proof that you were not.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Will the others see you too?" asked Lucy. "Certainly not at first," said Aslan. "Later on, it depends." "But they won’t believe me!" said Lucy. "It doesn’t matter.
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C.S. Lewis
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Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia)
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But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Lucy went first, biting her lip and trying not to say all the things she thought of saying to Susan. But she forgot them when she fixed her eyes on Aslan.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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But when your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You have listened to fears, Child,' said Aslan. 'Come, let me breathe on you. Forget them. Are you brave again?
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, Book 4))
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But what would have been the good?" Aslan said nothing. "You mean," said Lucy rather faintly, "that it would have turned out all right – somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?" "To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that." "Oh dear," said Lucy. "But anyone can find out what will happen," said Aslan. "If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me – what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies.
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C.S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia (The Chronicles of Narnia, #1-7))
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Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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They did nothing wrong their time here has ended
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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My friendship you shall have, leanred Man," piped Reepicheep. "And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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To know what would have happened, child? said Aslan. No. Nobody is ever told that.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been some magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. "I'm sorry, Aslan," she said. "I'm ready now." "Now you are a lioness," said Aslan. "And now all Narnia will be renewed.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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This wasn't a garden,' said Susan presently. 'It was a castle...
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Edmund, give a special goodbye to Trumpkin for me. He's been a brick.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Go and wake the others and tell them to follow. If they will not, then you at least must follow me alone.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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I don't want to hold you hand!
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Cobbles and kettledrums! ...I hope this madness isn't going to end in a moonlit climb and broken necks.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Prince Caspian lived in a great castle in the center of Narnia with his uncle, Miraz, the King of Narnia, and his aunt, who had red hair and was called Queen Prunaprismia.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Sweet master doctor, learned master doctor, who ever heard of a witch that really died? You can always get them back.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He checked himself at once and looked as grace as a turnip by the time Reepicheep discovered where the noise came from.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Hail Lord, ...Loose my chains.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Little from you is really a bit too much
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)
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Thanks for my life, my cure, my breakfast - and my lesson.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian)
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The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Those who run first do not always run last,
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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To know what would have happened, child?" said Aslan. "No. Nobody is ever told that.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I say, Peter," whispered Edmund. "Look at those carvings on the walls. Don't they look old? And yet we're older than that. When we were last here, they hadn't been made." "Yes," said Peter. "That makes one think.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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That one small noise brought back the old days to the children’s minds more than anything that had happened yet. All the battles and hunts and feasts came rushing into their heads together.
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But when day came, with a sprinkle of rain, and he looked about him and saw on every side an unknown woods, wild heaths, and blue mountain, he thought how large and strange the world was and felt frightened and small.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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The help will come,” said Trufflehunter. β€œI stand by Aslan. Have patience, like us beasts. The help will come. It may be even now at the door.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Peter leaned forward, put his arms round the beast and kissed the furry head: it wasn't a girlish thing for him to do, because he was the High King.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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When there came a sound that I'd never heard the like of in all my born days. Eh, I won't forget that. The whole air was full of it, loud as thunder but far longer, cool and sweet as music over water but strong enough to shake the woods. And I said to myself, 'If that's not the Horn, call me a rabbit.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Aslan,” said Lucy, β€œyou’re bigger.” β€œThat is because you are older, little one,” answered he. β€œNot because you are?” β€œI am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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His name was Reepicheep and he was a gay and martial mouse. He wore a tiny little rapier at his side and twirled his long whiskers as if they were a moustache.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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This didn't seem to have anything to do with Old Narnia, which was what Caspian really wanted to hear about, but getting up in the middle of the night is always interesting and he was moderately pleased.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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I know the difference between giving advice and taking orders. You’ve had my advice, and now it’s the time for orders.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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I mustn’t think about it, I must just do it.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I say," said Edmund as they walked away, "I suppose it 'is' all right. I mean, I suppose you can beat him?" "That's what I'm fighting him to find out," said Peter.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Wouldn't it be dreadful if some day, in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you'd never know which were which?
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C.S. Lewis (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – Complete Collection: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe + Prince Caspian + The Voyage of the Dawn Treader + The Silver Chair ... Horse and His Boy + The The Last Battle…)
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And that's why, when they want to get rid of anyone, they usually bring him down here (like they were doing with me) and say they'll leave him to the ghosts. But I always wondered if they didn't really drown 'em or cut their throats. I never quite believed in the ghosts. But those two cowards you've just shot believed all right. They were more scared of taking me to my death than I was of going.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I wouldn’t have felt safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we’d met them without Aslan.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Whatever we do, don't let's have any running. Especially not before supper; and not too soon after it neither.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Caspian felt sure that he would hate the new Tutor, but when the new Tutor arrived about a week later he turned out to be the sort of person it is almost impossible not to like. He was the smallest, and also the fattest, man Caspian had ever seen. He had a long, silvery, pointed beard which came down to his waist, and his face, which was brown and covered with wrinkles, looked very wise, very ugly, and very kind. His voice was grave and his eyes were merry so that, until you got to now him really well, it was hard to know when he was joking and when he was serious. His name was Doctor Cornelius.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Why have your followers all drawn their swords, may I ask?" said Aslan. "May it please Your High Majesty," said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, "we are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse." "Ah!" roared Aslan. "You have conquered me. You have great hearts. Not for the sake of your dignity, Reepicheep, but for the love that is between you and your people, and still more for the kindness your people showed me long ago when you ate away the cords that bound me on the Stone Table (and it was then, though you have long forgotten it, that you began to be Talking Mice), you shall have your tail again.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I do wish," said Lucy, "now that we're not thirsty, we could go on feeling as not-hungry as we did when we were thirsty.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I did wonder if there really was such a person as Aslan: but then sometimes I wondered if there were really people like you. Yet there you are.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You are my King. I know the difference between giving advice and taking orders. You’ve had my advice, and now it’s the time for orders.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Wouldn’t it be dreadful if some day in our own world, at home, men started going wild inside, like the animals here, and still looked like men, so that you’d never know which were which?
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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And as he spoke, like the flush creeping along the underside of a cloud at sunrise, the colour came back to her white face and get eyes grew bright and she sat up and said, 'Why, I do declare I feel that better. I think I could take a little breakfast this morning.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (The Chronicles Of Narnia #4))
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Up till now King Miraz had been talking in the tiresome way that some grown-ups have, which makes it quite clear that they are not really interested in what you are saying, but now he suddenly gave Caspian a very sharp look.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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May it please your High Majesty,” said the second Mouse, whose name was Peepiceek, β€œwe are all waiting to cut off our own tails if our Chief must go without his. We will not bear the shame of wearing an honor which is denied to the High Mouse.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Let the vermin be flung into a pit,” said Peter. β€œBut the Dwarf we will give to his people to be buried in their own fashion.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia))
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Domnii Θ™i domniΘ›ele cerului Θ™tiu prea bine ce paΘ™i de dans sΔƒ facΔƒ, nu se ciocnesc. UitaΘ›i-vΔƒ bine la ele! ÎntΓ’lnirea lor aduce noroc;
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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And the feasts on the poop and the musicians.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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To know what would have happened, child?” said Aslan. β€œNo. Nobody is ever told that.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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She knew she herself was wide awake, wider than anyone usually is.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia))
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One of the best ways of getting to sleep is to stop trying.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian: The Return to Narnia)
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When your sword breaks, you draw your dagger.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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It is the queerest thing that has happened this queer day.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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No one had warned Caspian (because no one in these later days of Narnia remembered) that Giants are not at all clever. Poor Wimbleweather, though as brave as a lion, was a true Giant in that respect.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. β€œAnd that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. β€œAnd that is both honor enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.” Caspian bowed.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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What about food?” asked Susan. β€œOh, we’ll have to do with apples,” said Lucy. β€œDo let’s get on. We’ve done nothing yet, and we’ve been here nearly two days.” β€œAnd anyway, no one’s going to have my hat for a fish-basket again,” said Edmund.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Great Scott!” said Peter. β€œSo it was the horn--your own horn, Su--that dragged us all off that seat on the platform yesterday morning! I can hardly believe it; yet it all fits in.” β€œI don’t know why you shouldn’t believe it,” said Lucy, β€œif you believe in magic at all. Aren’t there lots of stories about magic forcing people out of one place--out of one world--into another? I mean, when a magician in The Arabian Nights calls up a Jinn, it has to come. We had to come, just like that.” β€œYes,” said Peter, β€œI suppose what makes it feel so queer is that in the stories it’s always someone in our world who does the calling. One doesn’t really think about where the Jinn’s coming from.” β€œAnd now we know what it feels like for the Jinn,” said Edmund with a chuckle. β€œGolly! It’s a bit uncomfortable to know that we can be whistled for like that. It’s worse than what Father says about living at the mercy of the telephone.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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All the trees of the world appeared to be rushing towards Aslan. But as they drew nearer they looked less like trees, and when the whole crowd, bowing and curtsying and waving thin long arms to Aslan, were all around Lucy, she saw that it was a crowd of human shapes. Pale birch-girls were tossing their heads, willow-women pushed back their hair from their brooding faces to gaze on Aslan, the queenly beeches stood still and adored him, shaggy oak-men, lean and melancholy elms, shock-headed hollies (dark themselves, but their wives all bright with berries) and gay rowans, all bowed and rose again, shouting, "Aslan, Aslan!" in their various husky or creaking or wave-like voices.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on. I say great good will come of it. This is the true King of Narnia we've got here: a true King, coming back to true Narnia. And we beasts remember, even if Dwarfs forget, that Narnia was never right except when a son of Adam was King.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Look here,” said Edmund, β€œneed we go by the same way that Our Dear Little Friend came?” β€œNo more of that, your Majesty, if you love me,” said the Dwarf. β€œVery well,” said Edmund. β€œMay I say our D.L.F.?” β€œOh, Edmund,” said Susan. β€œDon’t keep on at him like that.” β€œThat’s all right, lass--I mean your Majesty,” said Trumpkin with a chuckle. β€œA jibe won’t raise a blister.” (And after that they often called him the D.L.F. till they’d almost forgotten what it meant.)
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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The invisible people agreed about everything. Indeed most of their remarks were the sort it would not be easy to disagree with: "What I always say is, when a chap's hungry, he likes some victuals," or "Getting dark now; always does at night," or even "Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?
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C.S. Lewis (The Complete Chronicles of Narnia (Illustrated): The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Prince Caspian. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. The Silver Chair. ... Boy. The Magician's Nephew. The Last Battle)
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Can you lay your hand on your hearts and tell me I'm really alive? Are you sure I wasn't drowned and we're not all ghosts together?
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It’s not Men’s country (who should know that better than me?) but it’s a country for a man to be King of.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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Silenus or Nymphs and
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C.S. Lewis (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA – Complete Collection: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe + Prince Caspian + The Voyage of the Dawn Treader + The Silver Chair ... Horse and His Boy + The The Last Battle…)
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as they were of trees. That’s
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #4))
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I watch the skies, Badger, for it is mine to watch, as it is yours to remember. Tarva and Alambil have met in the halls of high heaven, and on earth a son of Adam has once more arisen to rule and name the creatures. The hour has struck. Our council at the Dancing Lawn must be a council of war.” He spoke in such a voice that neither Caspian nor the others hesitated for a moment: it now seemed to them quite possible that they might win a war and quite certain that they must wage one.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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You mean,” said Lucy rather faintly, β€œthat it would have turned out all right--somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?” β€œTo know what would have happened, child?” said Aslan. β€œNo. Nobody is ever told that.” β€œOh dear,” said Lucy. β€œBut anyone can find out what will happen,” said Aslan. β€œIf you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me--what will happen? There is only one way of finding out.” β€œDo you mean that is what you want me to do?” gasped Lucy. β€œYes, little one,” said Aslan. β€œWill the others see you too?” asked Lucy. β€œCertainly not at first,” said Aslan. β€œLater on, it depends.” β€œBut they won’t believe me!” said Lucy. β€œIt doesn’t matter,” said Aslan. β€œOh dear, oh dear,” said Lucy. β€œAnd I was so pleased at finding you again. And I thought you’d let me stay. And I thought you’d come roaring in and frighten all the enemies away--like last time. And now everything is going to be horrid.” β€œIt is hard for you, little one,” said Aslan. β€œBut things never happen the same way twice. It has been hard for us all in Narnia before now.” Lucy buried her head in his mane to hide from his face. But there must have been magic in his mane. She could feel lion-strength going into her. Quite suddenly she sat up. β€œI’m sorry, Aslan,” she said. β€œI’m ready now.” β€œNow you are a lioness,” said Aslan. β€œAnd now all Narnia will be renewed. But come. We have no time to lose.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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If you don't attend, Gwendolen," said the mistress, "and stop looking out of the window, I shall have to give you an order-mark." "But please, Miss Prizzle-" began Gwendolen. "Did you hear what I said, Gwendolen?" asked Miss Prizzle. "But please, Miss Prizzle," said Gwendolen, "there's a LION!" "Take two order-marks for talking nonsense," said Miss Prizzle. "And now-" A roar interrupted her. Ivy came curling in at the windows of the classroom. The walls became a mass of shimmering green, and leafy branches arched overhead where the ceiling had been. Miss Prizzle found she was standing on grass in a forest glade. She clutched at her desk to steady herself, and found that the desk was a rose-bush. Wild people such as she had never even imagined were crowding round her. Then she saw the Lion, screamed and fled, and with her fled her class, who were mostly dumpy, prim little girls with fat legs. Gwendolen hesitated. "You'll stay with us, sweetheart?" said Aslan. "Oh, may I? Thank you, thank you," said Gwendolen. Instantly she joined hands with two of the Maenads, who whirled her round in a merry dance and helped her take off some of the unnecessary and uncomfortable clothes that she was wearing.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Now,” said the Badger, β€œif only we could wake the spirits of these trees and this well, we should have done a good day’s work.” β€œCan’t we?” said Caspian. β€œNo,” said Trufflehunter. β€œWe have no power over them. Since the Humans came into the land, felling forests and defiling streams, the Dryads and Naiads have sunk into a deep sleep. Who knows if ever they will stir again? And that is a great loss to our side. The Telmarines are horribly afraid of the woods, and once the Trees moved in anger, our enemies would go mad with fright and be chased out of Narnia as quick as their legs could carry them.” β€œWhat imaginations you Animals have!” said Trumpkin, who didn’t believe in such things. β€œBut why stop at Trees and Waters? Wouldn’t it be even nicer if the stones started throwing themselves at old Miraz?
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Away on his right he could see, rather indistinctly, the Western Mountains. On his left was the gleam of the Great River, and everything was so quiet that he could hear the sound of the waterfall at Beaversdam, a mile away. There was no difficulty in picking out the two stars they had come to see. They hung rather low in the southern sky, almost as bright as two little moons and very close together. β€œAre they going to have a collision?” he asked in an awestruck voice. β€œNay, dear Prince,” said the Doctor (and he too spoke in a whisper). β€œThe great lords of the upper sky know the steps of their dance too well for that. Look well upon them. Their meeting is fortunate and means some great good for the sad realm of Narnia. Tarva, the Lord of Victory, salutes Alambil, the Lady of Peace. They are just coming to their nearest.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Then Bacchus and Silenus and the Maenads began a dance, far wilder than the dance of the trees; not merely a dance of fun and beauty (though it was that too) but a magic dance of plenty, and where their hands touched, and where their feet fell, the feast came into existence- sides of roasted meat that filled the grove with delicious smells, and wheaten cakes and oaten cakes, honey and many-colored sugars and cream as thick as porridge and as smooth as still water, peaches, nectarines, pomegranates, pears, grapes, straw-berries, raspberries- pyramids and cataracts of fruit. Then, in great wooden cups and bowls and mazers, wreathed with ivy, came the wines; dark, thick ones like syrups of mulberry juice, and clear red ones like red jellies liquefied, and yellow wines and green wines and yellow-green and greenish-yellow. But for the tree people different fare was provided. When Lucy saw Clodsley Shovel and his moles scuffling up the turf in various places (when Bacchus had pointed out to them) and realized that the trees were going to eat earth it gave her rather a shudder. But when she saw the earths that were actually brought to them she felt quite different. They began with a rich brown loam that looked almost exactly like chocolate; so like chocolate, in fact, that Edmund tried a piece of it, but he did not find it all nice. When the rich loam had taken the edge off their hunger, the trees turned to an earth of the kind you see in Somerset, which is almost pink. They said it was lighter and sweeter. At the cheese stage they had a chalky soil, and then went on to delicate confections of the finest gravels powdered with choice silver sand. They drank very little wine, and it made the Hollies very talkative: for the most part they quenched their thirst with deep draughts of mingled dew and rain, flavored with forest flowers and the airy taste of the thinnest clouds.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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After that came a moment which is hard to describe, for the children seemed to be seeing three things at once. One was the mouth of a cave opening into the glaring green and blue of an island in the Pacific, where all the Telmarines would find themselves the moment they were through the Door. The second was a glade in Narnia, the faces of Dwarfs and Beasts, the deep eyes of Aslan, and the white patches on the Badger’s cheeks. But the third (which rapidly swallowed up the other two) was the gray, gravelly surface of a platform in a country station, and a seat with luggage round it, where they were all sitting as if they had never moved from it--a little flat and dreary for a moment after all they had been through, but also, unexpectedly, nice in its own way, what with the familiar railway smell and the English sky and the summer term before them. β€œWell!” said Peter. β€œWe have had a time.” β€œBother!” said Edmund. β€œI’ve left my new torch in Narnia.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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And then, so quickly that no one (unless they knew, as Peter did) could quite see how it happened, Edmund flashed his sword round with a peculiar twist, the Dwarf’s sword flew out of his grip, and Trumpkin was wringing his empty hand as you do after a β€œsting” from a cricket-bat. β€œNot hurt, I hope, my dear little friend?” said Edmund, panting a little and returning his own sword to its sheath. β€œI see the point,” said Trumpkin drily. β€œYou know a trick I never learned.” β€œThat’s quite true,” put in Peter. β€œThe best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that’s new to him. I think it’s only fair to give Trumpkin a chance at something else. Will you have a shooting match with my sister? There are no tricks in archery, you know.” β€œAh, you’re jokers, you are,” said the Dwarf. β€œI begin to see. As if I didn’t know how she can shoot, after what happened this morning. All the same, I’ll have a try.” He spoke gruffly, but his eyes brightened, for he was a famous bowman among his own people. All five of them came out into the courtyard. β€œWhat’s to be the target?” asked Peter. β€œI think that apple hanging over the wall on the branch there would do,” said Susan. β€œThat’ll do nicely, lass,” said Trumpkin. β€œYou mean the yellow one near the middle of the arch?” β€œNo, not that,” said Susan. β€œThe red one up above--over the battlement.” The Dwarf’s face fell. β€œLooks more like a cherry than an apple,” he muttered, but he said nothing out loud.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))
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Lucy's eyes began to grow accustomed to the light, and she saw the trees that were nearest her more distinctly. A great longing for the old days when the trees could talk in Narnia came over her. She knew exactly how each of these trees would talk if only she could wake them, and what sort of human form it would put on. She looked at a silver birch; it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face, and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his face and hands, and hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah!- she would be the best of all. She would be a precious goddess, smooth and stately, the lady of the wood.
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C.S. Lewis (Prince Caspian (Chronicles of Narnia, #2))