← ‘--yes, that’s about the right distance--but then I wonder what Latitude or Longitude I’ve got to?’ (Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) 🔊
← After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. 🔊
← In a little while, however, she again heard a little pattering of footsteps in the distance, 🔊
← so she set off at once, and ran till she was quite tired and out of breath, and till the puppy’s bark sounded quite faint in the distance. 🔊
← Alice thought she might as well go back, and see how the game was going on, as she heard the Queen’s voice in the distance, screaming with passion. 🔊
← They had not gone far before they saw the Mock Turtle in the distance, sitting sad and lonely on a little ledge of rock, and, as they came nearer, Alice could hear him sighing as if his heart would break. 🔊
← ‘Chorus again!’ cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of ‘The trial’s beginning!’ was heard in the distance. 🔊
← while the lowing of the cattle in the distance would take the place of the Mock Turtle’s heavy sobs. 🔊