ALICE 'S RIGHT FOOT , ESQ. . THE CARPET , with ALICE 'S LOVE oh dear ! what nonsense I am talking ! '' Just at this moment , her head struck against the roof of the hall : in fact , she was now rather more than nine feet high , and she at once took up the little golden key , and hurried off to the garden door . Poor Alice ! it was as much as she could do , lying down on one side , to look through into the garden with one eye , but to get through was more hopeless than ever : she sat down and cried again . `` You ought to be ashamed of yourself , '' said Alice , `` a great girl like you , '' -LRB- she might well say this , -RRB- `` to cry in this way ! Stop this instant , I tell you ! '' But she cried on all the same , shedding gallons of tears , until there was a large pool , about four inches deep , all round her , and reaching half way across the hall . After a time , she heard a little pattering of feet in the distance , and dried her eyes to see what was coming . It was the white rabbit coming back again , splendidly dressed , with a pair of white kid gloves in one hand , and a nosegay in the other . Alice was ready to ask help of any one , she felt so desperate , and as the rabbit passed her , she said , in a low , timid voice , `` If you please , Sir -- '' the rabbit started violently , looked up once into the roof of the hall , from which the voice seemed to come , and then dropped the nosegay and the white kid gloves , and skurried away into the darkness , as hard as it could go . -LSB- Illustration -RSB- Alice took up the nosegay and gloves , and found the nosegay so delicious that she kept smelling at it all the time she went on talking to herself -- `` dear , dear ! how queer everything is today ! and yesterday everything happened just as usual : I wonder if I was changed in the night ? Let me think : was I the same when I got up this morning ? I think I remember feeling rather different . But if I 'm not the same , who in the world am I ? Ah , that 's the great puzzle ! '' And she began thinking over all the children she knew of the same age as herself , to see if she could have been changed for any of them .
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