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After that talk with the Lady things got worse in two different ways. In the first place the country was much harder. The road led through endless, narrow valleys //down which a cruel north wind was always blowing in their faces. There was nothing that could be used for firewood, and there were no nice little hollows to camp in, as there had been on the moor. And the ground was all stony, and made your feet sore by day and every bit of you sore by night.
* and (the ground made) every bit of you sore by night.
* down which a cruel north wind was always blowing in their faces.
= a cruel north wind was always blowing (down which=down valleys) in their faces.
In the second place, whatever the Lady had intended by telling them about Harfang, the actual effect on the children was a bad one. They could think about nothing but beds and baths and hot meals and how lovely it would be to get indoors. They never talked about Aslan, or even about the lost prince, now. And Jill gave up her habit of repeating the signs over /to herself /every night and morning.
She said to herself, at first, that she was too tired, but she soon forgot all about it. And though you might have expected that the idea of having a good time at Harfang would have made them more cheerful, it really made them more sorry for themselves and more grumpy and snappy with each other and with Puddleglum.
From The Silver Chair
Compiled in A Year with Aslan
The Silver Chair.
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