可笑吧蒙面唱将第几期 《能言马与男孩》第82期:可笑的拉巴达什(1)

《能言马与男孩》第82期:可笑的拉巴达什(1)  

Chapter 15 Rabadash the Ridiculous
THE next turn of the road- brought them out from among the trees and there
across green lawns
sheltered from the north wind by the high wooded ridge at its back
they saw the castle of Anvard. It was very old and built of a warm
reddish-brown stone.
Before they had reached the gate King Lune came out to meet them
not looking at all like Aravis's idea of a king and wearing the oldest of old clothes; for he had just e from making a round of the kennels with his Huntsman and had only stopped for a moment to wash his doggy hands. But the bow with which he greeted Aravis as he took her hand would have been stately enough for an Emperor.
他们还没有走到城门口，国王伦恩就出来迎接他们了，看上去压根儿不像阿拉维斯心目中的国王，竟穿着旧衣服中最旧的衣服哩；因为他刚带着他的猎人们巡视他的养狗场回来，才歇一歇洗洗他那碰过狗儿的手。但他搀着阿拉维斯的手向她鞠躬致意时，其风度之庄严堂皇，就足以表明他是个皇帝了。
"Little lady
" he said
"we bid you very heartily wele. If my dear wife were still alive we could make you better cheer but could not do it with a better will. And I am sorry that you have had misfortunes and been driven from your father's house
which cannot but be a grief to you. My son Cor has told me about your adventures together and all your valour."
"It was he who did all that
Sir
" said Aravis. "Why
he rushed at a lion to save me."
"Eh
what's that?" said King Lune
his face brightening. "I haven't heard that part of the story."
Then Aravis told it. And Cor
who had very much wanted the story to be known
though he felt he couldn't tell it himself
didn't enjoy it so much as he had expected
and indeed felt rather foolish. But his father enjoyed it very much indeed and in the course of the next few weeks told it to so many people that Cor wished it had never happened.
Then the King turned to Hwin and Bree and was just as polite to them as to Aravis
and asked them a lot of questions about their families and where they had lived in Narnia before they had been captured. The Horses were rather tongue-tied for they weren't yet used to being talked to as equals by Humans grown-up Humans
that is. They didn't mind Aravis and Cor.
Presently Queen Lucy came out from the castle and joined them and King Lune said to Aravis
"My dear
here is a loving friend of our house
and she has been seeing that your apartments are put to rights for you better than I could have done it."
"You'd like to e and see them
wouldn't you?" said Lucy
kissing Aravis. They liked each other at once and soon went away together to talk about Aravis's bedroom and Aravis's boudoir and about getting clothes for her
and all the sort of things girls do talk about on such an occasion.
After lunch
which they had on the terrace (it was cold birds and cold game pie and wine and bread and cheese)
King Lune ruffled up his brow and heaved a sigh and said
"Heigh-ho! We have still that sorry creature Rabadash on our hands
my friends
and must needs resolve what to do with him."
Lucy was sitting on the King's right and Aravis on his left. King Edmund sat at one end of the table and the Lord Darrin faced him at the other. Dar and Peridan and Cor and Corin were on the same side as the King.
"Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head
" said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins."
"It is very true
" said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful.
"To kill this Rabadash would go near to raising war with the Tisroc
" said Darrin.
"A fig for the Tisroc
" said King Lune. "His strength is in numbers and numbers will never cross the desert. But I have no stomach for killing men (even traitors) in cold blood. To have cut his throat in the battle would have eased my heart mightily
but this is a different thing."
"By my counsel
" said Lucy
"your Majesty shall give him another trial. Let him go free on strait promise of fair dealing in the future. It may be that he will keep his word."
"Maybe Apes will grow honest
Sister
" said Edmund. "But
by the Lion
if he breaks it again
may it be in such time and place that any of us could swap off his head in clean battle."
"It shall be tried
" said the King: and then to one of the attendants
"Send for the prisoner
friend."