CHAPTER TWELVE SORCERY AND SUDDEN VENGEANCE(第5/5页)

“You’re bleeding,”said Peter.

“Yes,I’m bitten,”said Caspian.“It was that—that wolf thing.”Cleaning and bandaging the wound took a long time,and when it was done Trumpkin said,“Now.Before everything else we want some breakfast.”

“But not here,”said Peter.

“No,”said Caspian with a shudder.“And we must send someone to take away the bodies.”

“Let the vermin be flung into a pit,”said Peter.“But the Dwarf we will give to his people to be buried in their own fashion.”

They breakfasted at last in another of the dark cellars of Aslan’s How.It was not such a breakfast as they would have chosen,for Caspian and Cornelius were thinking of venison pasties,and Peter and Edmund of buttered eggs and hot coffee,but what everyone got was a little bit of cold bear-meat (out of the boys’ pockets),a lump of hard cheese,an onion,and a mug of water.But,from the way they fell to,anyone would have supposed it was delicious.