← There seemed to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: 🔊
← for this curious child was very fond of pretending to be two people. 🔊
← ‘But it’s no use now,’ thought poor Alice, ‘to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!’ Soon her eye fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table: 🔊
← Only I don’t think,’ Alice went on, ‘that they’d let Dinah stop in the house if it began ordering people about like that!’ 🔊
← Alice felt that this could not be denied, so she tried another question. ‘What sort of people live about here?’ 🔊
← ‘But I don’t want to go among mad people,’ Alice remarked. 🔊
← ‘and besides, what would be the use of a procession,’ thought she, ‘if people had all to lie down upon their faces, so that they couldn’t see it?’ 🔊
← They’re dreadfully fond of beheading people here; the great wonder is, that there’s any one left alive!’ 🔊
← I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know--’ 🔊
← 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. 🔊