← (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) 🔊
← the Dormouse fell asleep instantly, and neither of the others took the least notice of her going, though she looked back once or twice, half hoping that they would call after her: 🔊
← and they repeated their arguments to her, though, as they all spoke at once, she found it very hard indeed to make out exactly what they said. 🔊
← ‘When I’m a Duchess,’ she said to herself, (not in a very hopeful tone though), ‘I won’t have any pepper in my kitchen at all. 🔊
← ‘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. 🔊
← Don’t be all day about it!’ and he went on in these words: ‘Yes, we went to school in the sea, though you mayn’t believe it--’ 🔊
← ‘Hadn’t time,’ said the Gryphon: ‘I went to the Classics master, though. He was an old crab, he was.’ 🔊
← Alice did not dare to disobey, though she felt sure it would all come wrong, and she went on in a trembling voice:-- 🔊
← They all returned from him to you, Though they were mine before. 🔊
← So she sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed herself in Wonderland, though she knew she had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality-- 🔊