like the flush /creeping along the underside of a cloud at sunrise

[soso]

Today's Reading

At Beaversdam they re-crossed the river and came /east /again /along the southern bank.

They came /to a little cottage //where a child stood /in the doorway /crying.

“Why are you crying, my love?” asked Aslan.

The child, who had never seen a picture of a lion, was not afraid of him.

“Auntie’s very ill,” she said. “She’s going to die.”

Then Aslan went /to go in at the door of the cottage, but it was too small for him.

So, when he had got his head through, he pushed /with his shoulders

(Lucy and Susan fell off when he did this) and lifted the whole house up and it fell /backward and apart.

And there, still in her bed, though the bed was now in the open air, lay a little old woman //who looked

/as if she had Dwarf blood in her.

She was at death’s door, but when she opened her eyes and saw the bright, hairy head of the lion /staring into her face, she did not scream or faint.

She said, “Oh, Aslan! I knew () it was true.

I’ve been waiting /for this /all my life. Have you come /to take me away?”

“Yes, dearest,” said Aslan. “But not the long journey yet.”

And as he spoke, like the flush /creeping along the underside of a cloud at sunrise,

the color came back /to her white face and her eyes grew bright and she sat up and said,

“Why, I do declare () I feel /that better. I think () I could take a little breakfast /this morning.”

* 부사역할인 명사구 /all my life, /this morning

From Prince Caspian
Compiled in A Year with Aslan

Prince Caspian. The Return to Narnia. Copyright © 1951 by C. S. Lewis Pte., Ltd. Copyright renewed © 1979 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers. A Year With Aslan: Daily Reflections from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © 2010 by C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. Extracts taken from The Chronicles of Narnia. Copyright © C. S. Lewis Pte. Ltd. 1950-1956. All rights reserved. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers.