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to be sure, this generally happens when one eats cake, but Alice had got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out-of-the-way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. 🔊

It did so indeed, and much sooner than she had expected: 🔊

then Alice, thinking it was very like having a game of play with a cart-horse, and expecting every moment to be trampled under its feet, ran round the thistle again; 🔊

Alice waited a little, half expecting to see it again, but it did not appear, 🔊

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