← Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on to her feet in a moment: 🔊
← ‘Nobody seems to like her, down here, and I’m sure she’s the best cat in the world! 🔊
← Alice knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her, 🔊
← and when she had looked under it, and on both sides of it, and behind it, it occurred to her that she might as well look and see what was on the top of it. 🔊
← Alice said nothing: she had never been so much contradicted in her life before, and she felt that she was losing her temper. 🔊
← but she saw in another moment that it was addressed to the baby, and not to her, so she took courage, and went on again:-- 🔊
← Alice did not quite know what to say to this: so she helped herself to some tea and bread-and-butter, and then turned to the Dormouse, and repeated her question. 🔊
← it puzzled her very much at first, but, after watching it a minute or two, she made it out to be a grin, and she said to herself ‘It’s the Cheshire Cat: now I shall have somebody to talk to.’ 🔊
← This was quite a new idea to Alice, and she thought it over a little before she made her next remark. 🔊
← ‘They told me you had been to her, And mentioned me to him: 🔊