← There are no mice in the air, I’m afraid, but you might catch a bat, and that’s very like a mouse, you know. 🔊
← and--oh dear!’ cried Alice in a sorrowful tone, ‘I’m afraid I’ve offended it again!’ 🔊
← ‘You promised to tell me your history, you know,’ said Alice, ‘and why it is you hate--C and D,’ she added in a whisper, half afraid that it would be offended again. 🔊
← and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 🔊
← ‘I can’t explain myself, I’m afraid, sir’ said Alice, ‘because I’m not myself, you see.’ 🔊
← ‘I’m afraid I am, sir,’ said Alice; 🔊
← ‘Not quite right, I’m afraid,’ said Alice, timidly; ‘some of the words have got altered.’ 🔊
← ‘I’m afraid I don’t know one,’ said Alice, rather alarmed at the proposal. 🔊
← but she added, to herself, ‘Why, they’re only a pack of cards, after all. I needn’t be afraid of them!’ 🔊
← ‘If any one of them can explain it,’ said Alice, (she had grown so large in the last few minutes that she wasn’t a bit afraid of interrupting him,) ‘I’ll give him sixpence. 🔊