← ‘and even if my head would go through,’ thought poor Alice, ‘it would be of very little use without my shoulders. 🔊
← ‘Come, my head’s free at last!’ said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: 🔊
← ‘And where have my shoulders got to? 🔊
← Alice had been looking over his shoulder with some curiosity. 🔊
← He looked anxiously over his shoulder as he spoke, and then raised himself upon tiptoe, put his mouth close to her ear, and whispered ‘She’s under sentence of execution.’ 🔊
← first, because the Duchess was very ugly; and secondly, because she was exactly the right height to rest her chin upon Alice’s shoulder, and it was an uncomfortably sharp chin. 🔊
← ‘Ah, well! It means much the same thing,’ said the Duchess, digging her sharp little chin into Alice’s shoulder as she added, ‘and the moral of that is--“Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves.”’ 🔊
← Alice could see, as well as if she were looking over their shoulders, that all the jurors were writing down ‘stupid things!’ on their slates, 🔊