← ‘And what an ignorant little girl she’ll think me for asking! No, it’ll never do to ask: perhaps I shall see it written up somewhere.’ Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so Alice soon began talking again. 🔊
← ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself,’ said Alice, ‘a great girl like you,’ (she might well say this), ‘to go on crying in this way! Stop this moment, I tell you!’ 🔊
← ‘I--I’m a little girl,’ said Alice, rather doubtfully, as she remembered the number of changes she had gone through that day. 🔊
← ‘I’ve seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! 🔊
← ‘but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.’ 🔊
← and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?’ 🔊
← for she thought, and rightly too, that very few little girls of her age knew the meaning of it at all. 🔊