The King became pale as if he had seena ghost. “Doctor,"
he cried, “it shall be as you say. Do not raise your little
finger, please !" And he jumped out of bed and ran to tell
the soldiers to open the prison door. As soon as he was
gone, Polynesia crept downstairs and left the palace by the
pantry window.
But the Queen, who was just letting herself in at the
back-door with a latch-key, saw the parrot getting out
through the broken glass. And when the King came back
to bed she told him what she had seen. Then the King
understood that he had been tricked, and hurried back to
the prison at once. But he was to late. The Doctor and
all his animals were gone.
as if he had seen ~
-「まるで(彼が)~を見たかのように」
「~にしよう」
crept downstairs 「階下へ忍び足で歩いて行った」
was letting herself in at ~ ~から中に入ろうとしていた」
with a latch-key「掛け金のかぎを使って」
it shall be
b
D CONTEXT)本文の内容に合うよう。
に本文の1語を入れなさい。
After the King ran to tell the soldiers to open the prison
door, Polynesia left the
Palace through the pantry
window. But the Queen saw her and
the King
So the King knew that Polynesia had
him.
