Voorbeeld: Boek

45 Looking-Glass Insects instance, if the governess wanted to call you to your lessons, she would call out “come here— ,” and there she would have to leave off, because there wouldn’t be any name for her to all, and of course you wouldn’t have to go, you know.’ ‘That would never do, I’m sure,’ said Alice: ‘the governess would never think of excusing me les- sons for that. If she couldn’t remember my name, she’d call me “Miss!” as the servants do.’ ‘Well. if she said “Miss,” and didn’t say any- thing more,’ the Gnat remarked, ‘of course you’d miss your lessons. That’s a joke. I wish you had made it.’ ‘Why do you wish I had made it?’Alice asked. ‘It’s a very bad one.’ But the Gnat only sighed deeply, while two large tears came rolling down its cheeks. ‘You shouldn’t make jokes,’Alice said, ‘if it makes you so unhappy.’ Then came another of those melancholy little sighs, and this time the poor Gnat really seemed to have sighed itself away, for, when Alice looked up, there was nothing whatever to be seen on the twig, and, as she was getting quite chilly with sitting still so, long she got up and walked on. She very soon came to an open field, with a wood on the other side of it: it looked much darker than the last wood, andAlice felt a little timid about going into it. However, on second thoughts, she made up her mind to go on: ‘for I certainly won’t