Lewis C S - Narnia 1 by The Magician s Nephew
Author:The Magician s Nephew
Format: epub
now?â âWe do seem to be somewhere,â said Digory. âAt least Iâm standing on something solid.â âWhy, so am I, now that I come to think of it,â said Polly. âBut whyâs it so dark? I say, do you think we got into the wrong Pool?â âPerhaps this is Cham,â said Digory. âOnly weâve got back in the middle of the night.â âThis is not Charn,â came the Witchâs voice. âThis is an empty world. This is Nothing.â And really it was uncommonly like Nothing. There were no stars. It was so dark that they couldnât see one another at all and it made no difference whether you kept your eyes shut or open. Under their feet there was a cool, flat something which might have been earth, and was certainly not grass or wood. The air was cold and dry and there was no wind. âMy doom has come upon me,â said the Witch in a voice of horrible calmness. âOh donât say that,â babbled Uncle Andrew. âMy dear young lady, pray donât say such things. It canât be as bad as that. Ah - Cabman - my good man you donât happen to have a flask about you? A drop of spirits is just what I need.â âNow then, now then,â came the Cabbyâs voice, a good firm, hardy voice. âKeep cool everyone, thatâs what I say. No bones broken, anyone? Good. Well thereâs something to be thankful for straight away, and more than anyone could expect after falling all that way. Now, if weâve fallen down some diggings - as it might be for a new station on the Underground - someone will come and get us out presently, see! And if weâre dead - which I donât deny it might be - well, you got to -remember that worse things âappen at sea and a chapâs got to die sometime. And there ainât nothing to be afraid of if a chapâs led a decent life. And if you ask me, I think the best thing we could do to pass the time would be sing a âymn.â And he did. He struck up at once a harvest thanksgiving hymn, all about crops being âsafely gathered inâ. It was not very suitable to a place which felt as if nothing had ever grown there since the beginning of time, but it was the one he could remember best. He had a fine voice and the children joined in; it was very cheering. Uncle Andrew and the Witch did not join in. Towards the end of the hymn Digory felt someone plucking at his elbow and from a general smell of brandy and cigars and good clothes he decided that it must be Uncle Andrew. Uncle Andrew was cautiously pulling him away from the others. When they had gone a little distance, the old man put his mouth so
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