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第42章 The Magician‘s Nephew(42)

They put on the green rings, took hands, and once more shouted “One.Two.Three.Go” . This time it worked. It is very hard to tell you what it felt like, for everything happened so quickly. At first there were bright lights moving about in a black sky; Digory always thinks these were stars and even swears that he saw Jupiter quite close.close enough to see its moon. But almost at once there were rows and rows of roofs and chimney pots about them, and they could see St Paul‘s and knew they were looking at London. But you could see through the walls of all the houses. Then they could see Uncle Andrew, very vague and shadowy, but getting clearer and more solid.looking all the time, just as if he were coming into focus. But before he became quite real Polly shouted “Change” , and they did change, and our world faded away like a dream, and the green light above grew stronger and stronger, till their heads came out of the pool and they scrambled ashore. And there was the wood all about them, as green and bright and still as ever. The whole thing had taken less than a minute.

“There!” said Digor y. “That’s all right. Now for the adventure. Any pool will do. Come on. Let‘s try that one.”