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19: 2015/06/26(金)13:41 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(15/59) AAS
"What I said," answered Lucy. "It was just after breakfast when I went into the wardrobe,
and I've been away for hours and hours, and had tea, and all sorts of things have
happened."
"Don't be silly, Lucy," said Susan. "We've only just come out of that room a moment ago,
and you were there then."
"She's not being silly at all," said Peter, "she's just making up a story for fun, aren't you,
Lu? And why shouldn't she?"
"No, Peter, I'm not," she said. "It's - it's a magic wardrobe. There's a wood inside it, and
it's snowing, and there's a Faun and a Witch and it's called Narnia; come and see."
20: 2015/06/26(金)13:42 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(16/59) AAS
That day, when it came to the afternoon and there was still no sign of a break in the
weather, they decided to play hide-and-seek. Susan was "It" and as soon as the others
scattered to hide, Lucy went to the room where the wardrobe was. She did not mean to
hide in the wardrobe, because she knew that would only set the others talking again about
the whole wretched business. But she did want to have one more look inside it; for by this
time she was beginning to wonder herself whether Narnia and the Faun had not been a
dream. The house was so large and complicated and full of hiding-places that she thought
she would have time to have one look into the wardrobe and then hide somewhere else.
But as soon as she reached it she heard steps in the passage outside, and then there was
nothing for it but to jump into the wardrobe and hold the door closed behind her. She did
21: 2015/06/26(金)13:44 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(17/59) AAS
not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe,
even if it is not a magic one.
Now the steps she had heard were those of Edmund; and he came into the room just in
time to see Lucy vanishing into the wardrobe. He at once decided to get into it himself -
not because he thought it a particularly good place to hide but because he wanted to go on
teasing her about her imaginary country. He opened the door. There were the coats
hanging up as usual, and a smell of mothballs, and darkness and silence, and no sign of
Lucy. "She thinks I'm Susan come to catch her," said Edmund to himself, "and so she's
keeping very quiet in at the back." He jumped in and shut the door, forgetting what a very
foolish thing this is to do. Then he began feeling about for Lucy in the dark. He had
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22: 2015/06/26(金)13:45 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(18/59) AAS
"Thank goodness," said Edmund, "the door must have swung open of its own accord." He
forgot all about Lucy and went towards the light, which he thought was the open door of
the wardrobe. But instead of finding himself stepping out into the spare room he found
himself stepping out from the shadow of some thick dark fir trees into an open place in
the middle of a wood.
There was crisp, dry snow under his feet and more snow lying on the branches of the
trees. Overhead there was pale blue sky, the sort of sky one sees on a fine winter day in
the morning. Straight ahead of him he saw between the tree-trunks the sun, just rising,
very red and clear. Everything was perfectly still, as if he were the only living creature in
that country. There was not even a robin or a squirrel among the trees, and the wood
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23: 2015/06/26(金)13:46 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(19/59) AAS
Still there was no answer.
"Just like a girl," said Edmund to himself, "sulking somewhere, and won't accept an
apology." He looked round him again and decided he did not much like this place, and
had almost made up his mind to go home, when he heard, very far off in the wood, a
sound of bells. He listened and the sound came nearer and nearer and at last there swept
into sight a sledge drawn by two reindeer.
The reindeer were about the size of Shetland ponies and their hair was so white that even
the snow hardly looked white compared with them; their branching horns were gilded
and shone like something on fire when the sunrise caught them. Their harness was of
scarlet leather and covered with bells. On the sledge, driving the reindeer, sat a fat dwarf
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24: 2015/06/26(金)13:51 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(20/59) AAS
CHAPTER FOUR
TURKISH DELIGHT
"BUT what are you?" said the Queen again. "Are you a great overgrown dwarf that has
cut off its beard?"
"No, your Majesty," said Edmund, "I never had a beard, I'm a boy."
"A boy!" said she. "Do you mean you are a Son of Adam?"
Edmund stood still, saying nothing. He was too confused by this time to understand what
the question meant.
"I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be," said the Queen. "Answer me, once
and for all, or I shall lose my patience. Are you human?"
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25: 2015/06/26(金)13:51 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(21/59) AAS
"Ha!" said the Queen, speaking more to herself than to him. "A door. A door from the
world of men! I have heard of such things. This may wreck all. But he is only one, and he
is easily dealt with." As she spoke these words she rose from her seat and looked Edmund
full in the face, her eyes flaming; at the same moment she raised her wand. Edmund felt
sure that she was going to do something dreadful but he seemed unable to move. Then,
just as he gave himself up for lost, she appeared to change her mind.
"My poor child," she said in quite a different voice, "how cold you look! Come and sit
with me here on the sledge and I will put my mantle round you and we will talk."
Edmund did not like this arrangement at all but he dared not disobey; he stepped on to the
sledge and sat at her feet, and she put a fold of her fur mantle round him and tucked it
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26: 2015/06/26(金)13:52 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(22/59) AAS
The Queen took from somewhere among her wrappings a very small bottle which looked
as if it were made of copper. Then, holding out her arm, she let one drop fall from it on
the snow beside the sledge. Edmund saw the drop for a second in mid-air, shining like a
diamond. But the moment it touched the snow there was a hissing sound and there stood
a jewelled cup full of something that steamed. The dwarf immediately took this and
handed it to Edmund with a bow and a smile; not a very nice smile. Edmund felt much
better as he began to sip the hot drink. It was something he had never tasted before, very
sweet and foamy and creamy, and it warmed him right down to his toes.
"It is dull, Son of Adam, to drink without eating," said the Queen presently. "What would
you like best to eat?"
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27: 2015/06/26(金)13:53 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(23/59) AAS
While he was eating the Queen kept asking him questions. At first Edmund tried to
remember that it is rude to speak with one's mouth full, but soon he forgot about this and
thought only of trying to shovel down as much Turkish Delight as he could, and the more
he ate the more he wanted to eat, and he never asked himself why the Queen should be so
inquisitive. She got him to tell her that he had one brother and two sisters, and that one of
his sisters had already been in Narnia and had met a Faun there, and that no one except
himself and his brother and his sisters knew anything about Narnia. She seemed
especially interested in the fact that there were four of them, and kept on coming back to
it. "You are sure there are just four of you?" she asked. "Two Sons of Adam and two
Daughters of Eve, neither more nor less?" and Edmund, with his mouth full of Turkish
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28: 2015/06/26(金)13:58 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(24/59) AAS
"There's nothing special about them," said Edmund, "and, anyway, I could always bring
them some other time."
"Ah, but once you were in my house," said the Queen, "you might forget all about thern.
You would be enjoying yourself so much that you wouldn't want the bother of going to
fetch them. No. You must go back to your own country now and come to me another day,
with them, you understand. It is no good coming without them."
"But I don't even know the way back to my own country," pleaded Edmund. "That's
easy," answered the Queen. "Do you see that lamp?" She pointed with her wand and
Edmund turned and saw the same lamp-post under which Lucy had met the Faun.
"Straight on, beyond that, is the way to the World of Men. And now look the other way'-
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29: 2015/06/26(金)14:02 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(25/59) AAS
"All right," said Edmund, "I see you were right and it is a magic wardrobe after all. I'll
say I'm sorry if you like. But where on earth have you been all this time? I've been
looking for you everywhere."
"If I'd known you had got in I'd have waited for you," said Lucy, who was too happy and
excited to notice how snappishly Edmund spoke or how flushed and strange his face was.
"I've been having lunch with dear Mr Tumnus, the Faun, and he's very well and the White
Witch has done nothing to him for letting me go, so he thinks she can't have found out
and perhaps everything is going to be all right after all."
"The White Witch?" said Edmund; "who's she?"
"She is a perfectly terrible person," said Lucy. "She calls herself the Queen of Narnia
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30: 2015/06/26(金)14:02 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(26/59) AAS
"Who told you all that stuff about the White Witch?" he asked.
"Mr Tumnus, the Faun," said Lucy.
"You can't always believe what Fauns say," said Edmund, trying to sound as if he knew
far more about them than Lucy.
"Who said so?" asked Lucy.
"Everyone knows it," said Edmund; "ask anybody you like. But it's pretty poor sport
standing here in the snow. Let's go home."
"Yes, let's," said Lucy. "Oh, Edmund, I am glad you've got in too. The others will have to
believe in Narnia now that both of us have been there. What fun it will be!"
But Edmund secretly thought that it would not be as good fun for him as for her. He
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31: 2015/06/26(金)14:07 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(27/59) AAS
"What's all this about, Ed?" said Peter.
And now we come to one of the nastiest things in this story. Up to that moment Edmund
had been feeling sick, and sulky, and annoyed with Lucy for being right, but he hadn't
made up his mind what to do. When Peter suddenly asked him the question he decided all
at once to do the meanest and most spiteful thing he could think of. He decided to let
Lucy down.
"Tell us, Ed," said Susan.
And Edmund gave a very superior look as if he were far older than Lucy (there was really
only a year's difference) and then a little snigger and said, "Oh, yes, Lucy and I have been
playing - pretending that all her story about a country in the wardrobe is true. just for fun,
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32: 2015/06/26(金)14:07 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(28/59) AAS
"Look here," said Peter, turning on him savagely, "shut up! You've been perfectly beastly
to Lu ever since she started this nonsense about the wardrobe, and now you go playing
games with her about it and setting her off again. I believe you did it simply out of spite."
"But it's all nonsense," said Edmund, very taken aback.
"Of course it's all nonsense," said Peter, "that's just the point. Lu was perfectly all right
when we left home, but since we've been down here she seems to be either going queer in
the head or else turning into a most frightful liar. But whichever it is, what good do you
think you'll do by jeering and nagging at her one day and encouraging her the next?"
"I thought - I thought," said Edmund; but he couldn't think of anything to say.
"You didn't think anything at all," said Peter; "it's just spite. You've always liked being
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33: 2015/06/26(金)14:08 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(29/59) AAS
"I don't care what you think, and I don't care what you say. You can tell the Professor or
you can write to Mother or you can do anything you like. I know I've met a Faun in there
and - I wish I'd stayed there and you are all beasts, beasts."
It was an unpleasant evening. Lucy was miserable and Edmund was beginning to feel that
his plan wasn't working as well as he had expected. The two older ones were really
beginning to think that Lucy was out of her mind. They stood in the passage talking about
it in whispers long after she had gone to bed.
The result was the next morning they decided that they really would go and tell the whole
thing to the Professor. "He'll write to Father if he thinks there is really something wrong
with Lu," said Peter; "it's getting beyond us." So they went and knocked at the study
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34: 2015/06/26(金)14:09 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(30/59) AAS
"That is a point," said the Professor, "which certainly deserves consideration; very careful
consideration. For instance - if you will excuse me for asking the question - does your
experience lead you to regard your brother or your sister as the more reliable? I mean,
which is the more truthful?"
"That's just the funny thing about it, sir," said Peter. "Up till now, I'd have said Lucy
every time."
"And what do you think, my dear?" said the Professor, turning to Susan.
"Well," said Susan, "in general, I'd say the same as Peter, but this couldn't be true - all
this about the wood and the Faun."
"That is more than I know," said the Professor, "and a charge of lying against someone
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35: 2015/06/26(金)14:18 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(31/59) AAS
"That is the very thing that makes her story so likely to be true," said the Professor. "If
there really a door in this house that leads to some other world (and I should warn you
that this is a very strange house, and even I know very little about it) - if, I say, she had
got into another world, I should not be at a surprised to find that the other world had a
separate time of its own; so that however long you stay there it would never take up any
of our time. On the other hand, I don't think many girls of her age would invent that idea
for themselves. If she had been pretending, she would have hidden for a reasonable time
before coming out and telling her story."
"But do you really mean, sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds - all over the
place, just round the corner - like that?"
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36: 2015/06/26(金)14:20 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(32/59) AAS
"But what are we to do?" said Susan. She felt that the conversation was beginning to get
off the point.
"My dear young lady," said the Professor, suddenly looking up with a very sharp
expression at both of them, "there is one plan which no one has yet suggested and which
is well worth trying."
"What's that?" said Susan.
"We might all try minding our own business," said he. And that was the end of that
conversation.
After this things were a good deal better for Lucy. Peter saw to it that Edmund stopped
jeering at her, and neither she nor anyone else felt inclined to talk about the wardrobe at
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37: 2015/06/26(金)14:22 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(33/59) AAS
Wardrobe Room till they've passed. No one will follow us in there." But the moment they
were inside they heard the voices in the passage - and then someone fumbling at the door
- and then they saw the handle turning.
"Quick!" said Peter, "there's nowhere else," and flung open the wardrobe. All four of
them bundled inside it and sat there, panting, in the dark. Peter held the door closed but
did not shut it; for, of course, he remembered, as every sensible person does, that you
should never never shut yourself up in a wardrobe.
CHAPTER SIX
INTO THE FOREST
"I wish the Macready would hurry up and take all these people away," said Susan
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38: 2015/06/26(金)14:23 ID:jTG8Tz1L0(34/59) AAS
"There's something sticking into my back," said Peter.
"And isn't it cold?" said Susan.
"Now that you mention it, it is cold," said Peter, "and hang it all, it's wet too. What's the
matter with this place? I'm sitting on something wet. It's getting wetter every minute." He
struggled to his feet.
"Let's get out," said Edmund, "they've gone."
"O-o-oh!" said Susan suddenly, and everyone asked her what was the matter.
"I'm sitting against a tree," said Susan, "and look! It's getting light - over there."
"By Jove, you're right," said Peter, "and look there - and there. It's trees all round. And
this wet stuff is snow. Why, I do believe we've got into Lucy's wood after all."
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