← (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) 🔊
← ‘I must be Mabel after all, and I shall have to go and live in that poky little house, and have next to no toys to play with, and oh! ever so many lessons to learn! 🔊
← That’ll be a comfort, one way--never to be an old woman--but then--always to have lessons to learn! 🔊
← ‘You should learn not to make personal remarks,’ Alice said with some severity; ‘it’s very rude.’ 🔊
← However, he consented to go on. ‘And so these three little sisters--they were learning to draw, you know--’ 🔊
← ‘They were learning to draw,’ the Dormouse went on, yawning and rubbing its eyes, for it was getting very sleepy; 🔊
← ‘Yes,’ said Alice, ‘we learned French and music.’ ‘And washing?’ said the Mock Turtle. 🔊
← ‘I couldn’t afford to learn it.’ said the Mock Turtle with a sigh. ‘I only took the regular course.’ 🔊
← Alice did not feel encouraged to ask any more questions about it, so she turned to the Mock Turtle, and said ‘What else had you to learn?’ 🔊
← ‘Well, I can’t show it you myself,’ the Mock Turtle said: ‘I’m too stiff. And the Gryphon never learnt it.’ 🔊