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the children would be frightened
From Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis in chapter 14: HOW ALL WERE VERY BUSY.
A teacher who doesn't see:
She clutched at her desk to steady herself, and found that the desk was a rose-bush.
A teacher who sees:
She looked out of the window and saw the divine revellers singing up the street and a stab of joy went through her heart. Aslan stopped right under the window and looked up at her. "Oh, don't, don't," she said. "I'd love to. But I mustn't. I must stick to my work. And the children would be frightened if they saw you."
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Comment by Jacob Belcher on December 14, 2011 at 10:58pm -
I always loved this little paragraph because it's just so odd, so random, so just, and so brutal:
At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into flower in the man's hand. He tried to drop it, but it stuck to his hand. His arm became a branch, his body the trunk of a tree, his feet took root. The boy, who had been crying a moment before, burst out laughing and joined them.
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Comment by Jesse Hake on December 14, 2011 at 4:12pm -
Great lines! A day spent quoting passages from Caspian would be a day well spent...
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.
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Comment by Jacob Belcher on December 14, 2011 at 12:21pm
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"You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve," said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content."
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