← ‘Would it be of any use, now,’ thought Alice, ‘to speak to this mouse? 🔊
← and she trembled till she shook the house, quite forgetting that she was now about a thousand times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason to be afraid of it. 🔊
← ‘Now, who did that?--It was Bill, I fancy-- 🔊
← But, now that I’m perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.’ 🔊
← ‘And now which is which?’ she said to herself, and nibbled a little of the right-hand bit to try the effect: 🔊
← and just as she came up to them she heard one of them say, ‘Look out now, Five! 🔊
← 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.’ 🔊
← The Cat seemed to think that there was enough of it now in sight, and no more of it appeared. 🔊
← I can’t tell you just now what the moral of that is, but I shall remember it in a bit.’ 🔊
← ‘The game’s going on rather better now,’ she said, by way of keeping up the conversation a little. 🔊