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第1527章 The Last Battle(104)

But the Unicorn explained to her that she was quite mistaken. He said that the Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve were brought out of their own strange world into Narnia only at times when Narnia was stirred and upset, but she mustn‘t think it was always like that. In between their visits there were hundreds and thousands of years when peaceful King followed peaceful King till you could hardly remember their names or count their numbers, and there was really hardly anything to put into the History Books. And he went on to talk of old Queens and heroes whom she had never heard of. He spoke of Swanwhite the Queen who had lived before the days of the White Witch and the Great Winter, who was so beautiful that when she looked into any forest pool the reflection of her face shone out of the water like a star by night for a year and a day afterwards. He spoke of Moonwood the Hare who had suchars that he could sit by Caldron Pool under the thunder f the great waterfall and hear what men spoke in whispers t Cair Paravel. He told how King Gale, who was ninth in escent from Frank the first of all Kings, had sailed far away to the Eastern seas and delivered the Lone Islanders from dragon and how, in return, they had given him the Lone lands to be part of the royal lands of Narnia for ever. He lked of whole centuries in which all Narnia was so happy hat notable dances and feasts, or at most tournaments, ere the only things that could be remembered, and every ay and week had been better than the last. And as he went n, the picture of all those happy years, all the thousands f them, piled up in Jill’s mind till it was rather like looking own from a high hill on to a rich, lovely plain full of woods nd waters and cornfields, which spread away and away till got thin and misty from distance. And she said: