Stranica 23 [23]
RABBIT-HOLE, i
Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up
on to her feet in a moment: she looked up,
but it was all dark overhead; before her was
another long passage, and the White Rabbit was
still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not
a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the
wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as
it turned a corner, “Oh my ears: and whiskers,
how late it’s getting!” She was close behind it
when she turned the corner; but the Rabbit was
no longer to be seen: she found herself in a
long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of
lamps hanging from the roof.
There were doors all round the hall, but they
were all locked; and when Alice had been all
the way down one side and up the other, trying
every door, she walked sadly down the middle,
wondering how she was ever to get out again.
Suddenly she came upon a little three-legged
table, all made of solid glass; there was nothing
on it but a tiny golden key, and Alice’s first
idea was that this might belong to one of the