Chapter 5 The gentlemen whom the king had left behind him to watch over the princess had each occasion to doubt the testimony of his own eyes, for more than strange were the objects to which they would bear witness. They were of one sort—creatures—but so grotesque and misshapen as to be more like a […]
Chapter 4 One morning the nurse left Irene with the housekeeper for a while. To amuse her she turned out the contents of an old cabinet upon the table. The little princess found her treasures, queer ancient ornaments, and many things the use of which she could not imagine, far more interesting than her own
Chapter 3 One splendid sunny day, about an hour after noon, Irene, who was playing on a lawn in the garden, heard the distant blast of a bugle. She jumped up with a cry of joy, for she knew by that particular blast that her father was on his way to see her. This part
Chapter 2 One morning, Irene along with the nurse went out. There in the market, they saw a boy.The boy was dressed in a miner’s dress, with a curious cap on his head. He was a very nice-looking boy, with eyes as dark as the mines in which he worked and as sparkling as the
Chapter 1 Once upon a time, a little princess named Irene lived with her father who was a king of a large kingdom. The princess’s house was quite big, surrounded by mountains and valleys. As her mother died just after her birth, the princess was brought up by country people in a large house, half
Chapter 7 So Alice got up and walked about—rather stiffly just at first, as she was afraid that the crown might come off: but she comforted herself with the thought that there was nobody to see her, ‘and if I really am a Queen,’ she said as she sat down again, ‘I shall be able
Chapter 6 After a while the noise seemed gradually to die away, till all was dead silence, and Alice lifted up her head in some alarm. There was no one to be seen, and her first thought was that she must have been dreaming about the Lion and the Unicorn and those queer Anglo-Saxon Messengers.
Chapter 5 Alice stood under a tree playing with a squirrel which was running helter-skelter. All of a sudden, she heard some footsteps.The next moment soldiers came running through the wood, at first in twos and threes, then ten or twenty together, and at last in such crowds that they seemed to fill the whole
Chapter 4 Alice ran a little way into the wood and stopped under a large tree. She saw somebody’s shawl. She caught the shawl as she spoke, and looked about for the owner. In another moment the White Queen came running wildly through the wood, with both arms stretched out wide, as if she were
Chapter 3 Alice ran down the hill and jumped over the first of the six little brooks.‘Tickets, please!’ said the Guard, putting his head in at the window. In a moment everybody was holding out a ticket: they were about the same size as the people, and quite seemed to fill the carriage.‘Now then! Show
Chapter 2 Wandering up and down, and trying turn after turn, but always coming back to the house, Alice did what she would. Indeed, once, when she turned a corner rather more quickly than usual, she ran against it before she could stop herself.‘It’s no use talking about it,’ Alice said, looking up at the
Chapter 1 One day, Alice was sitting curled up in a corner of the great arm-chair, half talking to herself and half asleep, the white kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till
Chapter 8 If Lord John’s behavior at this time was strange, that of Challenger was more so. I may say that he seemed to possess an extraordinary fascination for the Indian women, and that he always carried a large spreading palm branch with which he beat them off as if they were flies, when their
Chapter 7 The victory of the Indians and the annihilation of the ape-men, marked the turning point of our fortunes. From then onwards, we were in truth masters of the plateau, for the natives looked upon us with a mixture of fear and gratitude, since by our strange powers we had aided them to destroy
Chapter 6 We had imagined that our pursuers, the ape-men, knew nothing of our brush-wood hiding-place, but we were soon to find out our mistake. There was no sound in the woods—not a leaf moved upon the trees, and all was peace around us—but we should have been warned by our first experience how cunningly