Through the looking glass : and what Alice saw there . o a fit, she hastily picked up the Queenand set her on the table by the side of her noisylittle daughter. The Queen gasped, and sat down; the rapidjourney through the air had quite taken awayher breath, and for a minute or two she coulddo nothing but hug the little Lily in soon as she had recovered her breath a lit-tle, she called out to the White King, who wassitting sulkily among the ashes, Mind thevolcano! What volcano? said the King, looking upanxiously into the fire, as if he thought thatwas the most likely place to find on
Through the looking glass : and what Alice saw there . o a fit, she hastily picked up the Queenand set her on the table by the side of her noisylittle daughter. The Queen gasped, and sat down; the rapidjourney through the air had quite taken awayher breath, and for a minute or two she coulddo nothing but hug the little Lily in soon as she had recovered her breath a lit-tle, she called out to the White King, who wassitting sulkily among the ashes, Mind thevolcano! What volcano? said the King, looking upanxiously into the fire, as if he thought thatwas the most likely place to find one. Blew—me—up, panted the Queen, whowas still a little out of breath. Mind youcome up—the regular way—dont get blownup! Alice watched the White King as he slowly 22 THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. struggled up from bar to bar, till at last shesaid, Why, youll be hours and hours gettingto the table, at that rate. Id far better helpyou, hadnt I? But the King took no noticeof the question; it was quite clear that he couldneither hear her nor see So Alice picked him up very gently, andlifted him across more slowly than she hadlifted the Queen, that she mightnt take hisbreath away; but, before she put him on thetable, she thought she might as well dust hima little, he was so covered with ashes. She said afterwards that she had never seen THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS. 23 in all her life such a face as the King made,when he found himself held in the air by aninvisible hand, and being dusted; he was fartoo much astonished to cry out, but his eyesand his mouth went on getting larger andlarger, and rounder and rounder, till her handshook so with laughing that she nearly let himdrop upon the floor. Oh! please dont make such faces, mydear! she cried out, quite forgetting that theKing couldnt hear her. You make me laughso that I can hardly hold you! And dontkeep your mouth so wide open! All the asheswill get into it—there, now I think youre tidyenough! she added, as she smoothed his
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