But the Queen, believing that she had eaten Snow-white’s heart, could not but think that she was again the first and most beautiful of all; and she went to her looking-glass and said⁠—

“Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall,

Who in this land is the fairest of all?”

“Looking-glass, Looking-glass, on the wall, Who in this land is the fairest of all?”

and the glass answered⁠—