← So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, 🔊
← and once she remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquet she was playing against herself, 🔊
← ‘They must go by the carrier,’ she thought; ‘and how funny it’ll seem, sending presents to one’s own feet! And how odd the directions will look! 🔊
← ‘I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears! 🔊
← ‘If everybody minded their own business,’ the Duchess said in a hoarse growl, ‘the world would go round a deal faster than it does.’ 🔊
← for, you see, as they were lying on their faces, and the pattern on their backs was the same as the rest of the pack, she could not tell whether they were gardeners, or soldiers, or courtiers, or three of her own children. 🔊
← ‘How should I know?’ said Alice, surprised at her own courage. ‘It’s no business of mine.’ 🔊
← ‘Somebody said,’ Alice whispered, ‘that it’s done by everybody minding their own business!’ 🔊
← ‘I keep them to sell,’ the Hatter added as an explanation; ‘I’ve none of my own. I’m a hatter.’ 🔊
← and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. 🔊