Alice Through The Looking-Glass

Illustrated children's book by Lewis Carroll - online version

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33
LOOKING-GLASS HOUSE
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 downstairs------or, at least, it
wasn't exactly running, but a new invention for getting downstairs 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 feet; 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.