牛津英语书虫系列--Through The Looking-Glass 爱丽丝镜中世界奇遇记.doc
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Through the Looking Glass
by LEWIS CARROLL
CHAPTER 1
Looking-Glass house
One thing was certain, that the WHITE kitten had had nothing to do
with it: -- it was the black kittens 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 COULDNT have had any hand in the mischief.
The way Dinah washed her childrens 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 all come 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 didnt get on very fast, as she was talking all
the time, sometimes to the kitten, and sometimes to herself. Kitty
sat very demurely on her knee,
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