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the last battle_c·s·刘易斯- 第21部分


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n they had reached the very top did they slow up; that  was because they found themselves facing great golden gates。 and for a moment none of  them was bold enough to try if the gates would open。 they all felt just as they had  felt about the fruit 〃dare we? is it right? can it be meant for us?鈥

but while they were standing thus a great horn; wonderfully loud and sweet;  blew from somewhere inside that walled garden and the gates swung open。

tirian stood holding his breath and wondering who would e out。 and what  came was the last thing he had expected: a little; sleek; bright…eyed talking mouse  with a red  

feather stuck in a circlet on its head and its left paw resting on a long  sword。 it bowed; a most beautiful bow; and said in its shrill voice:  〃wele; in the lions name。 e further up and further in。鈥

then tirian saw king peter and king edmund and queen lucy rush forward to  kneel down and greet the mouse and they all cried out 〃reepicheep!〃 and tirian  breathed fast with the sheer wonder of it; for now he knew that he was looking at one of  the great heroes of narnia; reepicheep the mouse who had fought at the great battle  of beruna and afterwards sailed to the worlds end with king caspian the seafarer。  but before he had had much time to think of this he felt two strong arms thrown about him  and felt a bearded kiss on his cheeks and heard a well remembered voice saying:  〃what; lad? art thicker and taller since i last touched thee!鈥

it was his own father; the good king erlian: but not as tirian had seen him  last when they brought him home pale and wounded from his fight with the giant; nor even  as tirian remembered him in his later years when he was a grey…headed warrior。 this  was his father; young and merry; as he could just remember him from very early days  when he himself had been a little boy playing games with his father in the castle  garden at cair paravel; just before bedtime on summer evenings。 the very smell of the  bread…and…milk he used to have for supper came back to him。

jewel thought to himself; 〃i will leave them to talk for a little and then  i will go and greet the good king erlian。 many a bright apple has he given me when i was but a  colt。〃 but next moment he had something else to think of; for out of the gateway there  came a horse so mighty and noble that even a unicorn might feel shy in its presence: a  great winged horse。 it looked a moment at the lord digory and the lady polly and neighed  out 〃what; cousins!〃 and they both shouted 〃fledge! good old fledge!〃 and rushed to  kiss it。

but by now the mouse was again urging them to e in。 so all of them  passed in through the golden gates; into the delicious smell that blew towards them  out of that garden and into the cool mixture of sunlight and shadow under the trees;  walking on springy turf that was all dotted with white flowers。 the very first thing  which struck everyone was that the place was far larger than it had seemed from outside。  but no one had time to think about that for people were ing up to meet the  newers from every direction。

everyone you had ever heard of (if you knew the history of these countries)  seemed to be there。 there was glimfeather the owl and puddleglum the marshwiggle; and  king rilian the disenchanted; and his mother the stars daughter and his great father  caspian himself。

and close beside him were the lord drinian and the lord berne and trumpkin  the dwarf and truffle…hunter the good badger with glenstorm the centaur and a  hundred other heroes of the great war of deliverance。 and then from another side  came cor the king of archenland with king lune his father and his wife queen aravis and  the brave prince corin thunder…fist; his brother; and bree the horse and hwin the  mare。 and then  

… which was a wonder beyond all wonders to tirian … there came from further  away in the past; the two good beavers and tumnus the faun。 and there was greeting and  kissing and hand…shaking and old jokes revived; (youve no idea how good an old  joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years) and  the whole pany moved forward to the centre of the orchard where the phoenix sat in  a tree and looked down upon them all; and at the foot of that tree were two thrones  and in those two thrones a king and queen so great and beautiful that everyone bowed down  before them。

and well they might; for these two were king frank and queen helen from  whom all the most ancient kings of narnia and archenland are descended。 and tirian felt  as you would feel if you were brought before adam and eve in all their glory。

about half an hour later … or it might have been half a hundred years  later; for time there is not like time here … lucy stood with her dear friend; her oldest narnian  friend; the faun tumnus; looking down over the wall of that garden; and seeing all narnia  spread out below。 but when you looked down you found that this hill was much higher  than you had thought: it sank down with shining cliffs; thousands of feet below them and  trees in that lower world looked no bigger than grains of green salt。 then she turned  inward again and stood with her back to the wall and looked at the garden。

〃i see;〃 she said at last; thoughtfully。 〃i see now。 this garden is like  the stable。 it is far bigger inside than it was outside。鈥

〃of course; daughter of eve;〃 said the faun。 〃the further up and the  further in you go; the bigger everything gets。 the inside is larger than the outside。鈥

lucy looked hard at the garden and saw that it was not really a garden but  a whole world; with its own rivers and woods and sea and mountains。 but they were not  strange: she knew them all。

〃i see;〃 she said。 〃this is still narnia; and more real and more beautiful  then the narnia down below; just as it was more real and more beautiful than the narnia  outside the stable door! i see。。。 world within world; narnia within narnia。。。鈥

〃yes;〃 said mr tumnus; 〃like an onion: except that as you go in and in;  each circle is larger than the last。鈥

and lucy looked this way and that and soon found that a new and beautiful  thing had happened to her。 whatever she looked at; however far away it might be; once  she had fixed her eyes steadily on it; became quite clear and close as if she were  looking through a telescope。 she could see the whole southern desert and beyond it the  great city of tashbaan: to eastward she could see cair paravel on the edge of the sea and  the very window of the room that had once been her own。 and far out to sea she could  discover the islands; islands after islands to the end of the world; and; beyond the  end; the huge mountain which they had called aslans country。 but now she saw that it was  part of a great chain of mountains which ringed round the whole world。 in front of  her it seemed to e quite close。 then she looked to her left and saw what she took to be a  great bank of  

brightly…coloured cloud; cut off from them by a gap。 but she looked harder  and saw that it was not a cloud at all but a real land。 and when she had fixed her eyes  on one particular spot of it; she at once cried out; 〃peter! edmund! e and  look! e quickly。〃 and they came and looked; for their eyes also had bee like  hers。

〃whys〃 exclaimed peter。 〃its england。 and thats the house itself …  professor kirks old home in the country where all our adventures began!鈥

〃i thought that house had been destroyed;〃 said edmund。

〃so it was;〃 said the faun。 〃but you are now looking at the england within  england; the real england just as this is the real narnia。 and in that inner england no  good thing is destroyed。鈥

suddenly they shifted their eyes to another spot; and then peter and edmund  and lucy gasped with amazement and shouted out and began waving: for there they saw  their own father and mother; waving back at them across the great; deep valley。 it  was like when you see people waving at you from the deck of a big ship when you are  waiting on the quay to meet them。

〃how can we get at them?〃 said lucy。

〃that is easy;〃 said mr tumnus。 〃that country and this country … all the  real countries … are only spurs jutting out from the great mountains of aslan。 we have only  to walk along the ridge; upward and inward; till it joins on。 and listen! there is king  franks horn: we must all go up。鈥

and soon they found themselves all walking together and a great; bright  procession it was … up towards mountains higher than you could see in this world even if  they were there to be seen。 but there was no snow on those mountains: there were  forests and green slopes and sweet orchards and flashing waterfalls; one above the other;  going up forever。

and the land they were walking on grew narrower all the time; with a deep  valley on each side: and across that valley the land which was the real england grew  nearer and nearer。

the light ahead was growing stronger。 lucy saw that a great series of many …coloured cliffs led up in front of them like a giants staircase。 and then she  forgot everything else; because aslan himself was ing; leaping down from cliff to cliff like a  living cataract of power and beauty。

and the very first person whom aslan called to him was puzzle the donkey。  you never saw a donkey look feebler and sillier than puzzle did as he walked up to  aslan; and he looked; beside aslan; as small as a kitten looks beside a st bernard。 the  lion bowed down his head and whispered something to puzzle at which his long ears went  down; but then he said something else at which the ears perked up again。 the humans  couldnt hear what he had said either time。 then aslan turned to them and said: 

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