Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Illustrated children's book by Lewis Carroll - online version

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26
LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE.
she might as well dust him a little, he was so covered with ashes.
She said afterward that she had never seen in all her life such a face as the King made, when he found himself held in the air by an invisible hand, and being dusted: he was far too much astonished to cry out, but his eyes and his mouth went on get­ting larger and larger, and rounder and rounder, till her hand shook so with laughing that she nearly let him drop upon the floor.
" Oh! please don't make such faces, my dear! " she cried out, quite forgetting that the King couldn't hear her. " You make me laugh so that I can hardly hold you! And don't keep your