The Dormouse had closed its eyes by this time, and was going off into
a doze; 🔊 but, on being pinched by the Hatter, it woke up again with
a little shriek, and went on: 🔊 ‘--that begins with an M, such as
mouse-traps, and the moon, and memory, and muchness--you know you say
things are “much of a muchness”--did you ever see such a thing as a
‘Really, now you ask me,’ said Alice, very much confused, ‘I don’t
think--’ 🔊
‘Then you shouldn’t talk,’ said the Hatter. 🔊
This piece of rudeness was more than Alice could bear: she got up in
great disgust, and walked off; 🔊 the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and
neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she
looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: 🔊
the last time she saw them, they were trying to put the Dormouse into
‘At any rate I’ll never go there again!’ said Alice as she picked her
way through the wood. ‘It’s the stupidest tea-party I ever was at in all