CHAPTER SIXTEEN FAREWELL TO SHADOWLANDS（第4/4頁）

And as He spoke He no longer looked to them like a lion; but the things that began to happen after that were so great and beautiful that I cannot write them. And for us this is the end of all the stories，and we can most truly say that they all lived happily ever after. But for them it was only the beginning of the real story. All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page：now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read：which goes on forever：in which every chapter is better than the one before．

[1]編注：尤斯塔斯這個名字來源於希臘語，含義是“五谷豐登”，斯克羅布(Scrubb) 有“矮個子”的意思。讀者讀了下文就知道這裏說的“名副其實”有挖苦的意味。

[2]原文中尤斯塔斯的名字“Eustace”與“useless”（沒用處）的發音相近。　

[3]　“碼”是英制長度單位，1 碼（yard）=3 英尺（foot）=91.44 厘米。