Voorbeeld: Boek

114 ‘It’s My Own Invention’ ‘Of course I’ll wait,’ said Alice: ‘and thank you very much for coming so far— and for the song— I liked it very much.’ ‘I hope so,’ the Knight said doubtfully: ‘but you didn’t cry so much as I thought you would.’ So they shook hands, and then the Knight rode slowly away into the forest. ‘It won’t take long to see him off , I expect,’Alice said to herself, as she stood watching him. ‘There he goes! Right on his head as usual! However, he gets on again pretty easily— that comes of having so many things hung round the horse— ’ So she went on talking to herself, as she watched the horse walking leisurely along the road, and the Knight tumbling off, first on one side and then on the other. After the fourth or fifth tumble he reached the turn, and then she waved her handkerchief to him, and waited till he was out of sight. ‘I hope it encouraged him,’ she said, as he turned to run down the hill: ‘and now for the last brook, and to be a