“Are you the Lord Octesian？” said Lucy to the dragon， and then， when it sadly shook its head， “Are you someone enchanted.someone human， I mean？”
It nodded violently.
And then someone said.people disputed afterwards whether Lucy or Edmund said it first. “You’re not.not Eustace by any chance？”
And Eustace nodded his terrible dra gon head and thumped his tail in the sea and everyone skipped back （some of the sailors with ejaculations I will not put down in writing） to avoid the enormous and boiling tears which flowed from his eyes.