Stranica 63 [63]
IN A LITTLE BILL 47
self. ‘ How can you learn lessons in here? Why,
there’s hardly room for you, and no room at all
for any lesson-books ! ”
And so she went on, taking first one side and
then the other, and making quite a conversation
of it altogether; but after a few minutes she
heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
“Mary Ann! Mary Ann!” said the voice.
“Fetch me my gloves this moment!” Then came
a little patterimg of feet on the stairs. Alice
knew it was the Rabbit coming to look for her,
and she trembled till she shook the house, quite
forgetting that she was now about a thousand
times as large as the Rabbit, and had no reason
to be afraid of it.
Presently the Rabbit came up to the door,
and tried to open it; but as the door opened
inwards, and Alice's elbow was _ pressed hard
against it, that attempt proved a failure. Alice
heard it say to itself “Then I'll go round and
get in at the window.”
“That you wont!” thought Alice, and, after