Alice in Wonderland short story PDF

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The bell stops, and a loud knock at the hall-door takes its place. Was ever sweeter sound heard anywhere? Mona draws her breath quickly, and then as though ashamed of herself goes on stoically with her task. Yet for all her stoicism her color comes and goes, and now she is pale, and now "celestial, rosy red, love's proper hue," and now a little smile comes up and irradiates her face.,"Go home now to your wife and your child, and when you are hungry hunt like any one else. If you do not, you shall die.",With a little touch of wilfulness, perhaps pride, she withdraws her hand.,"Well, I think you would, for a moment or two at least," returns he, smiling grimly, and dropping the dangerous little toy with some carelessness into his own pocket.,One hand is beneath her cheek,—that is soft and moist as a child's might be in innocent slumber,—the other is thrown above her head. She is exquisite in her abandon, but very pale, and her breath comes unevenly.,"I am spinning flax for Betty, because she has rheumatism in her poor shoulder, and can do nothing, and this much flax must be finished by a certain time. I have nearly got through my portion now," says Mona; "and then we can go home.",He lifts his head here, and laughs aloud, a short, unmirthful laugh.,"What else did they say, Nolly?" asks Dorothy, in a wheedling tone.,"Dance no more to-night with that fellow," he says quickly, as they get outside.,"I shall do nothing of the kind," says Mr. Rodney, indignantly. "And if you address me in that way again I shall cut my throat.","You didn't get possession of it in that way?" asks he, seizing her hands and trying to read her face.,"What on earth is a shin?" puts in Geoffrey, sotto voce..