为啥有的第一胎是男孩 《能言马与男孩》第23期:在塔什班城门口(5)

《能言马与男孩》第23期:在塔什班城门口(5)  

"Oh Corin
Corin
how could you? And thou and I such close friends ever since thy mother died. And what should I have said to thy royal father if I came home without thee? Would have been a cause almost of war beeen Archenland and Narnia which are friends time out of mind. It was naught
playmate
very naught of thee to use us so."
"Apparently
" thought Shasta to himself
"I'm being mistaken for a Prince of Archenland
wherever that is. And these must be the Narnians. I wonder where the real Corin is?" But these thoughts did not help him say anything out loud.
"Where hast been
Corin?" said the lady
her hands still on Shasta's shoulders.
"I- I don't know
" stammered Shasta.
"There it is
Susan
" said the King. "I could get no tale out of him
true or false."
"Your Majesties! Queen Susan! King Edmund!" said a voice: and when Shasta turned to look at the speaker he nearly jumped out of his skin with surprise. For this was one of these queer people whom he had noticed out of the corner of his eye when he first came into the room. He was about the same height as Shasta himself. From the waist upwards he was like a man
but his legs were hairy like a goat's
and shaped like a goat's and he had goat's hooves and a tail. His skin was rather red and he had curly hair and a short pointed beard and o little horns. He was in fact a Faun
which is a creature Shasta had never seen a picture of or even heard of. And if you've read a book called The Lion
the Witch and the Wardrobe you may like to know that this was the very same Faun
Tumnus by name
whom Queen Susan's sister Lucy had met on the very first day when she found her way into Narnia. But he was a good deal older now for by this time Peter and Susan and Edmund and Lucy had been Kings and Queens of Narnia for several years.
"Your Majesties
" he was saying
"His little Highness has had a touch of the sun. Look at him! He is dazed. He does not know where he is."
Then of course everyone stopped scolding Shasta and asking him questions and he was made much of and laid on a sofa and cushions were put under his head and he was given iced sherbet in a golden cup to drink and told to keep very quiet.
Nothing like this had ever happened to Shasta in his life before. He had never even imagined lying on anything so fortable as that sofa or drinking anything so delicious as that sherbet. He was still wondering what had happened to the others and how on earth he was going to escape and meet them at the Tombs
and what would happen when the real Corin turned up again. But none of these worries seemed so pressing now that he was fortable. And perhaps
later on
there would be nice things to eat!
Meanwhile the people in that cool airy room were very interesting. Besides the Faun there were o Dwarfs (a kind of creature he had never seen before) and a very large Raven. The rest were all humans; grown-ups
but young
and all of them
both men and women
had nicer faces and voices than most Calormenes. And soon Shasta found himself taking an interest in the conversation.
"Now
Madam
" the King was saying to Queen Susan (the lady who had kissed Shasta). "What think you? We have been in this city fully three weeks. 说Have you yet settled in your mind whether you will marry this dark-faced lover of yours
this Prince Rabadash
or no?"