Kitabı oku: «Алиса в Зазеркалье / Through the Looking-glass, and What Alice Found There», sayfa 7
The Red Queen only smiled, and said, “That’s easy. You can be the White Queen’s Pawn, if you like. You’re in the Second Square: when you get to the Eighth Square you’ll be a Queen … ” Just at this moment they began to run.
They were running hand in hand, and the Queen went very fast and she cried to Alice “Faster! Faster!” Alice felt that she could not go faster.
The most curious thing was, that the trees and the other things round them never changed their places at all!
The Queenkept crying12“Faster! Faster!”
“Are we nearly there?” Alice asked at last.
“Nearly there!” the Queen said. “Faster! Now! Now!”
And they went so fast that they hardly touched the ground with their feet! Suddenly they stopped.
The Queen said kindly, “You may rest a little now.”
Alice looked round her in great surprise. “We have been under this tree the whole time! Nothing changed!”
“Of course,” said the Queen. “Here we have to run in order to stay in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run faster!”
Alice did not know what to say, but the Queen did not wait for an answer. “You know that a pawn goes two squares in its first move. So you will go very quickly through the Third Square …by train13, I think. Well, the Fourth Square belongs to Tweedledum and Tweedledee14. The Fifth one is covered with water. The Sixth Square belongs to Humpty Dumpty15. The Seventh Square is a forest. One of the Knights will show you the way. And in the Eighth Square we will be Queens together, and have a lot of fun!” Alice got up and curtseyed, and sat down again.
