Stranica 24 [24]
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8 DOWN THE doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the. key was too small, but at any rate it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round, she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and be hind it was a little door about fifteen inches high: she tried the little golden’ key in_ the lock, and to her great delight it fitted ! Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright
