← and was delighted to find that her neck would bend about easily in any direction, like a serpent. 🔊
← ‘I’m not a serpent!’ said Alice indignantly. ‘Let me alone!’ 🔊
← ‘Serpent, I say again!’ repeated the Pigeon, but in a more subdued tone, and added with a kind of sob, ‘I’ve tried every way, and nothing seems to suit them!’ 🔊
← ‘but those serpents! There’s no pleasing them!’ 🔊
← ‘but I must be on the look-out for serpents night and day! 🔊
← ‘But I’m not a serpent, I tell you!’ said Alice. 🔊
← No, no! You’re a serpent; and there’s no use denying it. 🔊
← ‘but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know.’ 🔊
← ‘I don’t believe it,’ said the Pigeon; ‘but if they do, why then they’re a kind of serpent, that’s all I can say.’ 🔊
← and what does it matter to me whether you’re a little girl or a serpent?’ 🔊