← And so it was indeed: she was now only ten inches high, and her face brightened up at the thought that she was now the right size for going through the little door into that lovely garden. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← 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. 🔊
← It was high time to go, for the pool was getting quite crowded with the birds and animals that had fallen into it: 🔊
← and a Canary called out in a trembling voice to its children, ‘Come away, my dears! It’s high time you were all in bed!’ 🔊
← 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: 🔊
← ‘I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice. ‘You are,’ said the King. ‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen. 🔊
← ‘I’m not a mile high,’ said Alice. ‘You are,’ said the King. ‘Nearly two miles high,’ added the Queen. 🔊