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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 8:
"It's my own invention", Lewis Carroll, Seite 8 ( von 8 )
"I hope so," the Knight said douptfully: "but you didn't cry so
much as I thought you would."
So they shook hands, and then the Knight rode slowly away into the forest.
"It won't take long to see him
off, I
expect," Alice said to herself, as she stood watching him. "There he
goes! Right on his head as usual! However, he gets on again pretty easily -
that comes of having so many things hung round the horse -" So she went on
talking to herself, as she watched the horse walking leisurely along the road,
and the Knight tumbling off, first on one side and then on the other. After the
fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief
to him, and waited till he was out of sight.
"I hope it encouraged him," she said, as she turned to run down the
hill: "and now for the last brook, and to be a Queen! How grand it
sounds!" A very few steps brought her to the edge of the brook. "The
Eighth Square at last!" she cried as she bounded across,
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and threw herself down to rest on a lawn as soft as moss, with little
flower-beds dotted about it here and there. "Oh, how glad I am to get
here! And what is this on my
head?" she exclaimed in a tone of dismay, as she put her hands up to
something very heavy, that fitted tight all round her head.
"But how can it have got
there without my knowing it?" she said to herself, as she lifted it off,
and set it on her lap to make out what it could possibly be.
It was a golden crown.
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