← --Come, I’ll take no denial; We must have a trial: For really this morning I’ve nothing to do.” 🔊
← ‘Chorus again!’ cried the Gryphon, and the Mock Turtle had just begun to repeat it, when a cry of ‘The trial’s beginning!’ was heard in the distance. 🔊
← ‘What trial is it?’ Alice panted as she ran; 🔊
← ‘I wish they’d get the trial done,’ she thought, ‘and hand round the refreshments!’ 🔊
← ‘What are they doing?’ Alice whispered to the Gryphon. ‘They can’t have anything to put down yet, before the trial’s begun.’ 🔊
← ‘They’re putting down their names,’ the Gryphon whispered in reply, ‘for fear they should forget them before the end of the trial.’ 🔊
← ‘A nice muddle their slates’ll be in before the trial’s over!’ thought Alice. 🔊
← ‘I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.’ 🔊
← ‘The trial cannot proceed,’ said the King in a very grave voice, ‘until all the jurymen are back in their proper places--all,’ he repeated with great emphasis, looking hard at Alice as he said do. 🔊
← She soon got it out again, and put it right; ‘not that it signifies much,’ she said to herself; ‘I should think it would be quite as much use in the trial one way up as the other.’ 🔊