← For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. 🔊
← First, however, she waited for a few minutes to see if she was going to shrink any further: 🔊
← they had a consultation about this, and after a few minutes it seemed quite natural to Alice to find herself talking familiarly with them, as if she had known them all her life. 🔊
← but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen. 🔊
← but she got used to it in a few minutes, and began talking to herself, as usual. 🔊
← and was just saying to herself, ‘if one only knew the right way to change them--’ when she was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. 🔊
← for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. 🔊
← ‘Here!’ cried Alice, quite forgetting in the flurry of the moment how large she had grown in the last few minutes, 🔊
← ‘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. 🔊