Prince Caspian 贾思潘王子 Chapter 10　The Return of the Lion-3

Of course, if the children had attempted a journey like this a few days ago in England, they would have been knocked up.

I think I have explained before how Narnia was altering them.

Even Lucy was by now, so to speak, only one-third of a little girl going to boarding school for the first time, and two-thirds of Queen Lucy of Narnia.

"At last!" said Susan.

"Oh, hurray!" said Peter.

The river gorge had just made a bend and the whole view spread out beneath them.

They could see open country stretching before them to the horizon and, between it and them, the broad silver ribbon of the Great River.

They could see the specially broad and shallow place which had once been the Fords of Beruna but was now spanned by a long, many-arched bridge.

There was a little town at the far end of it.

"By Jove," said Edmund. "We fought the Battle of Beruna just where that town is!"

This cheered the boys more than anything. You can't help feeling stronger when you look at a place where you won a glorious victory not to mention a kingdom, hundreds of years ago.

Peter and Edmund were soon so busy talking about the battle that they forgot their sore feet and the heavy drag of their mail shirts on their shoulders. The Dwarf was interested too.