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“I will say the spell,”said Lucy.“I don’t care.I will.”
She said I don’t care because she had a strong feeling that she mustn’t.
But when she looked back at the opening words of the spell, there in the middle of the writing,where she felt quite sure there had been no picture before,she found the great face of a lion,of The Lion,Aslan himself,staring into hers.It was painted such a bright gold that it seemed to be coming towards her out of the page;and indeed she never was quite sure afterwards that it hadn’t really moved a little.At any rate she knew the expression on his face quite well.He was growling and you could see most of his teeth.She became horribly afraid and turned over the page at once.
A little later she came to a spell which would let you know what your friends thought about you.Now Lucy had wanted very badly to try the other spell,the one that made you beautiful beyond the lot of mortals.So she felt that to make up for not having said it,she really would say this one.And all in a hurry,for fear her mind would change,she said the wordsnothing will induce me to tell you what they were.Then she waited for something to happen.
As nothing happened she began looking at the pictures.And all at once she saw the very last thing she expected-a picture of a third-class carriage in a train,with two schoolgirls sitting in it. She knew them at once.They were Marjorie Preston and Anne Featherstone.Only now it was much more than a picture.It was alive.She could see the telegraph posts flicking past outside the window.Then graduallylike when the radio is“coming on”she could hear what they were saying.
“Shall I see anything of you this term ?”said Anne,“or are you still going to be all taken up with Lucy Pevensie.”
“Don’t know what you mean by taken up,”said Marjorie.
“Oh yes,you do,”said Anne.“You were crazy about her last term.”
“No,I wasn’t,”said Marjorie.“I’ve got more sense than that. Not a bad little kid in her way.But I was getting pretty tired of her before the end of term.”
“Well,you jolly well won’t have the chance any other term !”shouted Lucy.“Two-faced little beast.”But the sound of her own voice at once reminded her that she was talking to a picture and that the real Marjorie was far away in another world.