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... beautiful presents yet because she wanted you to have the pleasure of seeing them unpacked . [ Children crowd around her . CHILDREN . Ah · • ! [ Dance around her . ERMENGARDE . Are they going to be unpacked here ? CHILDREN . Yes , yes ...
... beautiful presents yet because she wanted you to have the pleasure of seeing them unpacked . [ Children crowd around her . CHILDREN . Ah · • ! [ Dance around her . ERMENGARDE . Are they going to be unpacked here ? CHILDREN . Yes , yes ...
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... beautiful presents ! [ Pulls Lavinia's hair . LILLY . And he's told Miss Minchin that she can have anything she wants . ERMENGARDE . She's cleverer than any of us . My father says he'd give thousands of pounds if I were as clever as she ...
... beautiful presents ! [ Pulls Lavinia's hair . LILLY . And he's told Miss Minchin that she can have anything she wants . ERMENGARDE . She's cleverer than any of us . My father says he'd give thousands of pounds if I were as clever as she ...
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... beautiful . LAVINIA ( at table , catching Lottie touching doll ) . Get down this minute . That's not for babies to touch . [ Takes her . LOTTIE ( crying ) . I'm not a baby - I'm not - Sar - a , Sar - a - oh ! JESSIE . There now , you've ...
... beautiful . LAVINIA ( at table , catching Lottie touching doll ) . Get down this minute . That's not for babies to touch . [ Takes her . LOTTIE ( crying ) . I'm not a baby - I'm not - Sar - a , Sar - a - oh ! JESSIE . There now , you've ...
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... beautiful new story . ERMENGARDE . If it had been my chair , I should have told it to take me to the King's Palace . SARA . That is what happened - but listen . The time passed on , but Dame Frostyface did not come back for such a long ...
... beautiful new story . ERMENGARDE . If it had been my chair , I should have told it to take me to the King's Palace . SARA . That is what happened - but listen . The time passed on , but Dame Frostyface did not come back for such a long ...
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... beautiful - all you have to remember is seven fours are twenty - eight and seven nines are sixty- three . Now we must go , pet . [ Sets Lottie down , giving her doll - leads her out of room door . Garret left empty for few minutes ...
... beautiful - all you have to remember is seven fours are twenty - eight and seven nines are sixty- three . Now we must go , pet . [ Sets Lottie down , giving her doll - leads her out of room door . Garret left empty for few minutes ...
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Page 416 - Four other Oysters followed them, And yet another four; And thick and fast they came at last, And more, and more, and more All hopping through the frothy waves, And scrambling to the shore.
Page 413 - Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,
Page 417 - It seems a shame,' the Walrus said, 'To play them such a trick. After we've brought them out so far, And made them trot so quick!' The Carpenter said nothing but 'The butter's spread too thick!' 'I weep for you,' the Walrus said: 'I deeply sympathize.
Page 424 - I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.
Page 421 - 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.
Page 391 - Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgra.be. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!
Page 402 - ... he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle— will you come and join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, will you join the dance? Will you, won't you, will you, won't you, won't you join the dance? 'You can really have no notion how delightful it will be When they take us up and throw us, with the lobsters, out to sea!' But the snail replied 'Too far, too far!
Page 397 - When I use a word ... it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
Page 406 - ... might just as well say that 'I see what I eat' is the same thing as 'I eat what I see'!" "You might just as well say...
Page 392 - Alice, still panting a little, "you'd generally get to somewhere else — if you ran very fast for a long time as we've been doing." "A slow sort of country!" said the Queen. "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!