【英文原著类】THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS(镜中缘).pdf

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
THROUGH THE
LOOKING GLASS
by LEWIS CARROLL
THE MILLENNIUM FULCRUM EDITION
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THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
CHAPTER 1
Looking-Glass house
One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to
do with it:--it was the black kitten's fault entirely. For the white kitten
had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an
hour (and bearing it pretty well, considering); so you see that it
COULDN'T have had any hand in the mischief.
The way Dinah washed her children's faces was this: first she held
the poor thing down by its ear with one paw, and then with the other paw
she rubbed its face all over, the wrong way, beginning at the nose: and
just now, as I said, she was hard at work on the white kitten, which was
lying quite still and trying to purr--no doubt feeling that it was all meant
for its good.
But the black kitten had been finished with earlier in the afternoon,
and so, while Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair,
half talking to herself and half asleep, the kitten had been having a grand
game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up,
and had been rolling it up and down till it had e undone again; and
there it was, spread over the hearth-rug, all knots and tangles, with the
kitten running after its own tail in the middle.
`Oh, you wicked little thing!' cried Alice, catching up the kitten, and
giving it a little kiss to make it understand that it was in disgrace. `Really,
Dinah ought to have taught you better manners! You OUGHT, Dinah,
you know you ought!' she added, looking reproachfully at the old cat, and
speaking in as cross a voice as she could manage--and then she scrambled
back into the arm-chair, taking the kitten and the worsted with her, and
began winding up the ball again. But she didn't get on very fast, as she
was talking all the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself.
Kitty sat very de