红楼梦Chapter17_小升初阅读_小升初-查字典英语网

红楼梦Chapter17

What fine ingenuity! they all exclaimed extollingly; what a labour they must have been to carry out!

Chia Cheng had actually stepped in; but scarcely had they reached the second stage， before the whole party readily lost sight of the way by which they had come in. They glanced on the left， and there stood a door， through which they could go. They cast their eyes on the right， and there was a window which suddenly impeded their proGREss. They went forward， but there again they were obstructed by a bookcase. They turned their heads round， and there too stood windows pasted with transparent gauze and available door-ways： but the moment they came face to face with the door， they unexpectedly perceived that a whole company of people had likewise walked in， just in front of them， whose appearance resembled their own in every respect. But it was only a mirror. And when they rounded the mirror， they detected a still larger number of doors.

Sir， Chia Chen remarked with a grin; if youll follow me out through this door， well forthwith get into the back-court; and once out of the back-court， we shall be， at all events， nearer than we were before.

Taking the lead， he conducted Chia Cheng and the whole party round two gauze mosquito houses， when they verily espied a door through which they made their exit， into a court， replete with stands of cinnamon roses. Passing round the flower-laden hedge， the only thing that spread before their view was a pure stream impeding their advance. The whole company was lost in admiration. Where does this water again issue from? they cried.