← (for, you see, Alice had learnt several things of this sort in her lessons in the schoolroom, and though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge, as there was no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over) 🔊
← she looked up, but it was all dark overhead; before her was another long passage, and the White Rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. 🔊
← ‘That was a narrow escape!’ said Alice, a good deal frightened at the sudden change, but very glad to find herself still in existence; 🔊
← still it was very uncomfortable, and, as there seemed to be no sort of chance of her ever getting out of the room again, no wonder she felt unhappy. 🔊
← After a while she remembered that she still held the pieces of mushroom in her hands, 🔊
← still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. 🔊
← So she stood still where she was, and waited. 🔊
← Alice was very nearly getting up and saying, ‘Thank you, sir, for your interesting story,’ but she could not help thinking there must be more to come, so she sat still and said nothing. 🔊
← ‘When we were little,’ the Mock Turtle went on at last, more calmly, though still sobbing a little now and then, ‘we went to school in the sea. 🔊
← ‘If I’d been the whiting,’ said Alice, whose thoughts were still running on the song, ‘I’d have said to the porpoise, “Keep back, please: we don’t want you with us!”’ 🔊