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- “How would you like to live in Looking-glass House, Kitty? I wonder if
- they’d give you milk in there? Perhaps Looking-glass milk isn’t good to
- drink—But oh, Kitty! now we come to the passage. You can just see a
- little _peep_ of the passage in Looking-glass House, if you leave the
- door of our drawing-room wide open: and it’s very like our passage as
- far as you can see, only you know it may be quite different on beyond.
- Oh, Kitty! how nice it would be if we could only get through into
- Looking-glass House! I’m sure it’s got, oh! such beautiful things in
- it! Let’s pretend there’s a way of getting through into it, somehow,
- Kitty. Let’s pretend the glass has got all soft like gauze, so that we
- can get through. Why, it’s turning into a sort of mist now, I declare!
- It’ll be easy enough to get through—” She was up on the chimney-piece
- while she said this, though she hardly knew how she had got there. And
- certainly the glass _was_ beginning to melt away, just like a bright
- silvery mist.
- In another moment Alice was through the glass, and had jumped lightly
- down into the Looking-glass room. The very first thing she did was to
- look whether there was a fire in the fireplace, and she was quite
- pleased to find that there was a real one, blazing away as brightly as
- the one she had left behind. “So I shall be as warm here as I was in
- the old room,” thought Alice: “warmer, in fact, because there’ll be no
- one here to scold me away from the fire. Oh, what fun it’ll be, when
- they see me through the glass in here, and can’t get at me!”
- Then she began looking about, and noticed that what could be seen from
- the old room was quite common and uninteresting, but that all the rest
- was as different as possible. For instance, the pictures on the wall
- next the fire seemed to be all alive, and the very clock on the
- chimney-piece (you know you can only see the back of it in the
- Looking-glass) had got the face of a little old man, and grinned at
- her.
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Chapter 1 - Looking-Glass House
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