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Through
the Looking-Glass
and what Alice
found there
Kapitel 1:
Looking-glass house, Lewis Carroll, Seite 6 ( von 6 )
"It seems very pretty," she said when she had finished it, "but
it's rather hard
to understand!" (You see she didn't like to confess, even to herself, that
she couldn't make it out at all.) "Somehow it seems to fill my head with
ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are! However,
somebody killed
something:
that's clear, at any rate -"
"But oh!" thought Alice, suddenly jumping up, "if I don't make
haste I shall have to go back through the Looking-glass, before I've seen what
the rest of the house is like! Let's have a look at the garden first!" She
was out of the room in a moment, and ran down stairs - or, at least, it wasn't
exactly running, but a new invention for getting down stairs quickly and
easily, as Alice said to herself. She just kept the tips of her fingers on the
hand-rail, and floated gently down without even touching the stairs with her
feat; then she floated on through the hall, and would have gone straight out at
the door in the same way, if she hadn't caught hold of the door-post. She was
getting a little giddy with so much floating in the air, and was rather glad to
find herself walking again in the natural way.
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