← but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, 🔊
← Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: 🔊
← in fact she was now more than nine feet high, and she at once took up the little golden key and hurried off to the garden door. 🔊
← After a time she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance, and she hastily dried her eyes to see what was coming. 🔊
← She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: 🔊
← However, she soon made out that she was in the pool of tears which she had wept when she was nine feet high. 🔊
← and, as a last resource, she put one arm out of the window, and one foot up the chimney, and said to herself ‘Now I can do no more, whatever happens. What will become of me?’ 🔊
← As she said this, she came suddenly upon an open place, with a little house in it about four feet high. 🔊
← It was so large a house, that she did not like to go nearer till she had nibbled some more of the lefthand bit of mushroom, and raised herself to about two feet high: 🔊
← Then she went to work nibbling at the mushroom (she had kept a piece of it in her pocket) till she was about a foot high: 🔊