← Just then she heard something splashing about in the pool a little way off, and she swam nearer to make out what it was: 🔊
← she took up the fan and a pair of the gloves, and was just going to leave the room, when her eye fell upon a little bottle that stood near the looking-glass. 🔊
← It was so long since she had been anything near the right size, that it felt quite strange at first; 🔊
← and when she next peeped out the Fish-Footman was gone, and the other was sitting on the ground near the door, staring stupidly up into the sky. 🔊
← 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: 🔊
← Alice thought this a very curious thing, and she went nearer to watch them, 🔊
← ‘Of course it is,’ said the Duchess, who seemed ready to agree to everything that Alice said; ‘there’s a large mustard-mine near here. 🔊
← and near the King was the White Rabbit, with a trumpet in one hand, and a scroll of parchment in the other. 🔊
← She carried the pepper-box in her hand, and Alice guessed who it was, even before she got into the court, by the way the people near the door began sneezing all at once. 🔊
← Alice could see this, as she was near enough to look over their slates; ‘but it doesn’t matter a bit,’ she thought to herself. 🔊