← There was not a moment to be lost: away went Alice like the wind, and was just in time to hear it say, as it turned a corner, ‘Oh my ears and whiskers, how late it’s getting!’ 🔊
← she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether. 🔊
← For the Mouse was swimming away from her as hard as it could go, and making quite a commotion in the pool as it went. 🔊
← There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. 🔊
← and as Alice could not think of any good reason, and as the Caterpillar seemed to be in a very unpleasant state of mind, she turned away. 🔊
← So she set the little creature down, and felt quite relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. 🔊
← The Queen turned angrily away from him, and said to the Knave ‘Turn them over!’ 🔊
← and when she had got its head down, and was going to begin again, it was very provoking to find that the hedgehog had unrolled itself, and was in the act of crawling away: 🔊
← So she tucked it away under her arm, that it might not escape again, and went back for a little more conversation with her friend. 🔊
← The Cat’s head began fading away the moment he was gone, and, by the time he had come back with the Duchess, it had entirely disappeared; 🔊